Weighty issues of sustainability have troubled economist Amit Batabyal for more than a decade: how to provide safe drinking water to flood victims in developing countries, how to grow crops without ...

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 ...

The record-breaking mega-flood in August 2022 that impacted 33 million people in Pakistan brought home to the world the urgency and scale of the climate crisis afflicting developing countries. At the ...

Economies focused on exports have lifted millions out of poverty, but epochal changes in trade, supply chains and technology are making it a lot harder. By Patricia Cohen Reporting from London For ...

Amid rising domestic sovereign debt overhang in some emerging and developing economies (EMDEs), this paper underscores the importance of effective domestic sovereign debt restructuring (DDR) ...

Should policymakers in developing countries prioritize foreign technology adoption over domestic innovation? How might this depend on development stages? Using historical technology transfer data from ...

This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world’s richest countries, such as Luxembourg and the United States, have average incomes per person about 100 times ...

China Gives up Developing-Country Benefits to Boost WTO in Face of Trump Tariffs SHANGHAI (AP) — China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World ...