The Latest Breaking News from Developing Countries

The government plans to revise the Development Cooperation Charter, which sets guidelines for Japan's official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries, in the first half of next year with a focus on economic security, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

Sherry Rehman, the country’s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is hit by devastating floods

Many developing countries are teetering on the edge of a debt crisis, with the Covid-19 pandemic, soaring food and energy costs, and the monetary tightening of major economies all threatening to push them over. But the international community has yet to do what is necessary to pull at-risk countries back…

You can leave your old pairs of glasses at recycling centres across the city

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “put more people at risk of death” in dozens of developing countries where nearly 50 million people are now just “one step away from famine,” a minister warned on Friday.

Why U.S.-Chinese Tensions Put Developing Countries at Risk

Rejoinder from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, to the article “MC12 over, its ‘gains’ f

Cryptocurrencies have become popular in African and other developing countries. That’s according to a policy brief released recently by UNCTAD, a United Nations agency. Significant proportions of Kenya (8.5%), South Africa (7.1%) and Nigeria’s (6.3%) populations are using these digital currencies. In June, the Central African Republic adopted bitcoin as…

School closures and the shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in learning loss in developed and developing countries. Learning loss is generally defined as any specific or general loss of knowledge and skills or reversals in academic progress when students are not in school.

Washington has not delivered on its promise to the Green Climate Fund, a tool to avert catastrophic climate change.

Major developing countries are highly dependent on revenues from fossil fuel, it says