President Trump’s tariffs barrage has landed the heaviest blow on the very nations that global trade was supposed to help: poor countries. For decades, the U.S. and other rich countries have granted ...

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Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt. Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to give everyone in the world a check for $3,750. Or to pay ...

A falling dollar is normally good for the developing world. Because poor countries borrow more in the greenback than rich ones, their debt bills become less burdensome. At the same time, imports ...

Most of the attention on global environmental issues goes to climate change, and not without reason. The carbon dioxide we’re adding to the atmosphere — where carbon-concentration levels have almost ...

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving ...

It might seem that malnutrition is a problem only in poor countries. But “all countries face at least one form of malnutrition,” according to the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, which ...

Table 1.2 of Chapter 1 of the WEO makes one thing abundantly clear. When the IMF talks about the need for investors to “increase the share of their portfolios in US assets for many years” (p.16) in ...