HANOI, May 3 (Reuters) - The Asian Development Bank on Sunday announced a $70 billion programme to expand energy and digital infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region by 2035, aiming to strengthen ...

Tororo, Uganda — The government has launched a major campaign to increase coffee and cocoa production in the Bukedi sub-region as part of efforts to fight poverty and expand household incomes. The ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions and rapid technological changes are reshaping how economies participate in global value chains, the Asian ...

A new UNDP report has forecast job losses, crippling inflation and food insecurity, with the poorest nations brutally exposed to the oil shock The United Nations has issued a grim warning about the ...

The Asia & the Pacific Regional Trends report provides key statistical trends and the latest official statistics on refugees, people in refugee-like situations, asylum-seekers, stateless people, ...

Growth in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region is slowing in 2026 due to external shocks. Longer-term growth requires reversing the productivity slowdown. Structural reforms have lost momentum, new ...

Fadumo Abdi Sheikh and her children lost everything about a decade ago when famine and drought forced them to leave their village in Somalia and flee to the city of Baidoa. The family struggled to get ...

Figure 4b: The poorest regions are furthest behind and contribute more to the Global Prosperity Gap relative to their population in 2024 Figure 5: Limited gains in the Global Gap due to a slowdown of ...