Some developing countries have opened their own economies to take full advantage of the opportunities for economic development through trade, but many have not. Remaining trade barriers in industrial ...

Gradually the contagion spread and affected new, greenfield investment, and expanded geographically from the Western industrial countries to the emerging markets and developing economies. Still, ...

The developing country list of obstacles is topped by four items scoring an average of 2.9: taxes and regulations, financing difficulties, inflation, and political instability or uncertainty. The next ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday said developing countries spent a record $1.4 trillion to service their foreign debts in 2023 as interest costs climbed to a 20-year high, squeezing ...

The amount of money rich countries give to the developing world to help it cope with climate change was one of the big battles of the COP26 climate summit. A pledge to provide $100bn (£72bn ...