Imagine that a government builds a five-star airport without any roads leading to it. The terminal is immaculate, the runway ...

Discover the core principles of development economics, including top theories like mercantilism and structural-change theory, ...

30 March 2026 - Developing countries are being priced out of the affordable finance they desperately need for sustainable development, with sovereign credit ratings often overstating risk and ...

According to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the growth in developing economies is expected to remain steady at 4.2% in 2024 and 2025. This stability is attributed to the fact that ...

We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and the past 25 years or so have been a tale of two economies when it comes to bridging the gap between the world’s richest and poorest ...

About the author: Rabah Arezki is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research and former chief economist and vice ...

The World Bank warned in a new report that poor countries will be stuck in economic “purgatory” without debt relief. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington Soaring inflation saddled developing ...

Awaza, 8 August 2025 – The Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) concluded today in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with the adoption of the Awaza Political Declaration, and ...

By Libby George and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - Developing country policymakers left this week's IMF-World ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Foreign direct investment flows into developing economies dropped to $435 billion in 2023, the lowest since 2005, with just $336 billion flowing into advanced economies, the ...