With just two days to go at COP29, a group of developing nations and China are pushing for rich countries to pledge at least $500 billion in annual climate financing by 2030 to fund their green ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Professor Afton Titus of the University of Cape Town explains her view on how the tax initiatives of the OECD and United Nations affect developing nations. Tax Notes ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The debt crisis facing the world's poorest economies is reaching new highs and debt servicing is eating up a growing share of revenues at the expense of spending on development, ...

JOHANNESBURG(AP) — Poorer nations attending the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have used the meeting to push leaders on climate action and high levels of debt, issues directly affecting the ...

Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug are Senior Researchers at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). 9 October 2025 The United Nations is a multilateral organization with ...

Rich governments would lead funding to help poorer countries Developing nations slam the deal as insufficient UN climate chief says impact depends on delivery Trump has pledged to remove US from ...

Developing countries need oil and gas resources to meet their needs for affordable and reliable energy, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be incentivized to transition to cleaner forms of ...

At the U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan, negotiators struck a deal at the last moment. Wealthy nations pledged $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate ...