WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to combat ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE CONVERSATION) ...

Cambodia: Ancient Temples Amid One of Asia’s Lowest Incomes Cambodia sits near the bottom of Asia’s income rankings, with ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) - When the race for coronavirus vaccines started, health officials knew the competition between rich and poor countries would be lopsided. But few expected poor countries to be at the mercy ...

MILAN (Reuters) -Unsustainable debt levels among the world's poorest countries pose a risk to economic development and social stability and require innovative solutions, Italy's central bank governor ...

The world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are spending billions of pounds more to repay debts than they receive in funding to fight climate change, new research shows. The analysis, ...

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 ...

The infographic contains a table listing country names and poverty rates. Zimbabwe is ranked first with a score of 84.2 ...

Dec 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against COVID-19 next year because rich countries have hoarded far more doses ...