The arc of history, wise people have assured us, bends towards justice. But this year it has taken a very circuitous route according to many of the global aid agencies. Rich nations have cut off ...

President Trump’s tariffs barrage has landed the heaviest blow on the very nations that global trade was supposed to help: poor countries. For decades, the U.S. and other rich countries have granted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines ...

A falling dollar is normally good for the developing world. Because poor countries borrow more in the greenback than rich ones, their debt bills become less burdensome. At the same time, imports ...

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving ...

Most of the attention on global environmental issues goes to climate change, and not without reason. The carbon dioxide we’re adding to the atmosphere — where carbon-concentration levels have almost ...

It might seem that malnutrition is a problem only in poor countries. But “all countries face at least one form of malnutrition,” according to the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, which ...

Global stocks continue to fall, and fears of a recession are growing, after Donald Trump rejected calls to scale back his order to institute sweeping tariffs on most of the world. The move will be ...

Table 1.2 of Chapter 1 of the WEO makes one thing abundantly clear. When the IMF talks about the need for investors to “increase the share of their portfolios in US assets for many years” (p.16) in ...