By Jason Hovet April 8 (Reuters) - Emerging and developing economies in Europe and Central Asia face a sharp slowdown this ...

We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and the past 25 years or so have been a tale of two economies when it comes to bridging the gap between the world’s richest and poorest ...

Overseas development aid from the world's richest nations to ​poorer countries dropped by 23.1% in 2025 to $174.3 billion, ...

Fragmenting world worsens finance squeeze, reversing decades of progress on development, UN report warns. UNITED NATIONS, 9 April 2026 – Development financing trends are going i ...

According to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the growth in developing economies is expected to remain steady at 4.2% in 2024 and 2025. This stability is attributed to the fact that ...

Her description of supposedly undeveloped Uganda shows we need to redefine what it means to be a third-world country.

The World Bank warned in a new report that poor countries will be stuck in economic “purgatory” without debt relief. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington Soaring inflation saddled developing ...

SHANGHAI — China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World Trade Organization agreements — a change long demanded by the United States. Commerce ...

Whether you use “Third World” or “Developing” to describe a certain country, both terms mean the same thing: poor. But it didn’t always mean that. During World War I, First World was used to refer to ...

Developing countries are being priced out of the affordable finance they desperately need for sustainable development, with ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...