Residents look at the wreckage of a passenger bus that crashed and burned, killing 41, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Jan. 29, 2023. At least 20 people died after a speeding bus plunged into a ...

The World Bank reports that 1 billion people across the globe can't prove their identity. This creates a variety of problems for citizens when it comes to accessing digital services. As one possible ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Out of approximately 195 countries, there are 152 developing countries in the world. An estimated 6.74 billion people in total live in these developing countries; an outstanding number when comparing ...

Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang received funding to attend Cop29 from the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, where she also conducts research as a ...

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WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...