Out of approximately 195 countries, there are 152 developing countries in the world. An estimated 6.74 billion people in total live in these developing countries; an outstanding number when comparing ...
Santiago Fernández de Córdoba is an economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and a Special Professor of Economics at Universidad de Navarra, Spain. He has been a ...
Discover what defines a newly industrialized country—economies transitioning from agriculture to industry, with notable GDP growth yet shy of being fully developed.
Vietnam, for example, was once one of the poorest countries in the world. But a series of economic reforms in the late ’80s — ...
December 2018, Nos. 3 & 4 Vol. LV, "New Technologies: Where To?" Imagine not having your cellphone handy to send a quick message, receive traffic updates, find your doctor’s telephone number, check a ...
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Alden Meyer, a senior consultant at E3G, an independent climate ...
New funding sources urgently needed as planet teeters on critical nature and climate tipping points World leaders must make good on CBD COP15 promise to fund biodiversity action through the Global ...
In this article, we take a look at the 30 least developed countries and their characteristics. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of the world’s least-developed countries, you can ...
A number of developed nations are successfully rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine, with the US finally entering a rapid vaccination push and countries like Israel, the UAE and the UK reaching ambitious ...
India has put vaccine distribution to other countries on hold as the country battles the world’s fastest-growing Covid-19 surge. The delay in distribution is hampering the global vaccination effort.