The impact on global growth of the Middle East violence has so far been contained. That’s not the case for Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, which were already struggling. By Patricia Cohen More than a ...

ASTANA – The European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), in partnership with governments across Central Asia, have ...

The United Nations Development Program will move close ‍to 400 staff from its New York headquarters ‍to Germany and Spain, it said late on Monday, following funding cuts by the United States. “The ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

KUWAIT, Jan 25 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed a USD five million grant agreement with UN, allocated to International Labour Organization (ILO), UN Educational, ...

More than one billion people are living in acute poverty across the globe, a UN Development Program report said Thursday, with children accounting for over half of those affected. The Barron's news ...

The United Nations (UN) announced late Tuesday that it has started a “challenging” operation to remove more than one million barrels of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker. In a statement sent to ...

Friday marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, which was born in 1945 at the crossroads of history. The world is once again in transition, many believe it is heading into chaos. But the ...

(Recasts, previous Seoul) By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.N. Development Program said on Monday it suspended operations in North Korea after Pyongyang failed to agree to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Middle-income countries like the Philippines may achieve further economic progress and development by instituting frameworks and mechanisms that ensure good governance and ...