The big-ticket item at this year’s UN climate summit (COP29) is setting a new finance goal that replaces the collective $100 billion per year developed countries provide and mobilize for climate ...

DEVELOPING countries paid nearly Sh130 trillion in interestin 2025 as expensive borrowing squeezes resources for healthcare, education andinfrastructure.According to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), ...

Lilongwe, Malawi – 13 May 2026 – The Government of Malawi, in partnership with the UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries, officially launched Malawi’s Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) ...

The climate crisis is escalating at an alarming rate, causing devastation around the world — especially in countries that contribute little to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Coping with climate ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan—A few dozen miles from the United Nations climate conference here, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates recently opened the region’s largest solar-power park. Nearby, a ...

A new analysis suggests that some developing countries have unexpectedly large numbers of childfree people; that is, people who have not had children and do not want to in the future. Zachary Neal and ...

Whether you use “Third World” or “Developing” to describe a certain country, both terms mean the same thing: poor. But it didn’t always mean that. During World War I, First World was used to refer to ...

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 ...

Held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 31 March to 1 April 2026, the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Mid-Term Review of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (2022–2031) brought together ...