First world result on third world budget
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Why the impoverished Caribbean island has better medical care than its much wealthier neighbours.
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Here&#39;s a quiz: over the past two years, which developing country has undertaken the most dramatic economic, political and social reforms in the world?
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s cabinet on Friday adopted an austere 798 billion-dollar budget for the year to March 2006 in which general or discretionary spending on policy programmes falls for the first time in three years, an official said.
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The International Monetary Fund approves a $436m emergency reconstruction loan for Iraq, the first loan from an international body.
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Washington, Oct. 4. (PTI): The annual conference of the World Bank Group and IMF where India was represented by Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, ended here with no consensus among developing countries on three
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THE European Commission yesterday concluded today that the Cyprus was on track for correcting its budget deficit. âI am comforted to note that the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Malta, Poland and
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The District government has achieved a budget surplus of more than $300 million for the third year in a row, thanks to higher-than-expected revenues and lower-than-expected spending last year, city officials announced this morning.
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The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day decreased from 40 to 21 per cent of the global population between 1981 and 2001, says the World Bank&#39;s latest annual report.
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The World Bank under Paul Wolfowitz's leadership provided $34.3 billion in loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to developing countries in fiscal 2007, $2.7 billion more than in 2006, the lender said on Tuesday.
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Rich nations need to increase their funding to poor countries if they are to meet aid commitments a report says.
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15 September 2004 - The world has made genuine progress towards achieving the ambitious programme outlined at the 1994 Cairo population conference, a United Nations review released today finds, but a serious funding shortfall is obstructing efforts to
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Law lecturer Saldi Isra was little known outside the confines of his university three years ago when he first asked the government of his province, West Sumatra, for a copy of its budget.
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The British government offered a sweeping plan yesterday for the Group of Seven nations to dramatically increase aid to the developing world and to forgive 100 percent of Africa's $70 billion in debt.
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Assembly members have voted to pass the executive's first budget, despite SDLP and Alliance Party opposition.
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Developing nations are on course to record their strongest economic growth since 1974, the World Bank says.
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Developing countries were last night celebrating victory over the world&#39;s two largest economic blocs after the World Trade Organisation ruled against the European Union&#39;s sugar regime and the support given by the United States to its cotton farmers.
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Forty-five rich and middle-income nations agreed yesterday to provide a record $25.1 billion to the World Bank for generous-term loans and grants to the world's poorest countries. But for the first time since Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed for the creation of the bank's arm for helping the poorest of...