Lower-income countries across the world will now be able to access life-saving vaccines which protect against the leading cause of pneumonia, for US$ 2 per dose.
It is estimated that 76 of the world’s poorest countries are due to spend $18.6 billion in 2020 on debt payments to other governments, $12.4 billion to multilateral institutions and $10.1 billion to external private creditors – $40.6 billion in total.
In a message released on the United Nations' International Day of Family Remittances , observed each 16 June, the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development said remittances from migrant workers to their families are expected to rise to over US$550 billion in 2019, up some $20 billion from $529 billion in 2018.
Around the world, rural women in developing countries are more likely to be food insecure than men. But equality for women can be a cornerstone in building a world without hunger and poverty, according to experts from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Korea Rural Economic Institute have signed an agreement to strengthen their collaborative efforts to end hunger and poverty in developing countries around the world.
The G7 should not allow the US to block more ambitious climate action, said Oxfam ahead of a meeting of G7 Environment Ministers in Metz, France on 5 and 6 May.
Developing countries have long struggled with the price of medicines. Today’s costs have rendered it a world-wide challenge, and it is the key topic of concern at a global medicines forum in South Africa, co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation.