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 ...

Earth has existed for more than 4 billion years without present-day humans. In the past, dinosaurs and cavemen never used its plentiful natural resources. The discrepancy in the allocation of earth’s ...

LONDON/GENEVA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A new U.N.-supported forum designed to help tackle the most pressing debt issues across emerging economies was launched on Wednesday as policymakers warned that ...

Sustainable finance is a crucial driver of economic growth and a catalyst of environmental resilience in developing economies like Kosovo, where my company operates. It allows financial institutions ...

While the world pushes for clean energy, developing economies still rely on fossil fuels, and without major financing, the transition will remain unequal and out of reach. According to Greenpeace, one ...

Composite data for country groups in the WEO are either sums or weighted averages of data for individual countries. Arithmetically weighted averages are used for all data for the emerging market and ...

The World Bank warned that developing economies will face tougher years ahead, with growth globally too slow to boost living standards and a climate of high policy uncertainty deterring ...

Thierry Kalisa started working with new data for real-time economic projections, or “nowcasting,” a decade ago, but the pandemic brought its potential into sharper focus. As a Rwandan finance ministry ...

Investment is the engine that expands productive capacity, modernizes infrastructure, creates jobs, and drives progress toward development and climate goals. Yet developing economies face an ...

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2025—Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing economies—a key propellant of economic growth and higher living standards—have dwindled to the lowest level since ...

Asia’s developing economies are showing resilience by reforming financial systems, strengthening fiscal buffers and embracing innovation in the face of global uncertainty and structural barriers.

Emerging markets offer significant opportunities, but they are also accompanied by considerable problems. Companies must cautiously navigate infrastructure challenges and currency fluctuations to ...