While global economics can sometimes seem boring, at its core lies the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. This figure represents the total income earned by a country’s people and businesses, ...

Even though South Sudan has rich oil reserves, this landlocked state is home to around 15 million people is a prime example of the "resource curse". Even though South Sudan has rich oil reserves, this ...

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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs are set to hit some of the world’s poorest nations the hardest, putting their labor-intensive export industries at risk and diminishing ...

This piece originally appeared in the Financial Times. The world’s poorest countries are in a development crisis and need greater access to affordable financing (Opinion, October 1; and Letters, ...

The World Happiness Report assesses global well-being each year based on factors such as social support, economic stability, ...

Impoverished countries do not have much in common. Half the population of Niger, a landlocked African nation beset by military coups, live in extreme poverty, eight in ten people have no access to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty-two countries and other donors have pledged $23.5 billion in new funds for the world's poorest states, pushing replenishment of the International Development Association ...