By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Low- and middle-income countries are borrowing more and paying more for new ...

Total debt of low- and middle-income economies grows 5.5%, marking fastest increase since 2021 Poorest countries face average ...

Developing countries' foreign debt reached a record high of $9. 4 trillion in 2025, rising at the fastest pace since 2021, the World Bank said in a report released on Thursday.

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Ask five people which country is winning at artificial intelligence and you’ll probably get five answers. One will point to the number of frontier models released, another to robot factories, and a ...

2025 is a pivotal moment for climate action. Countries are submitting new national climate commitments, known as "nationally determined contributions" or "NDCs," that will shape the trajectory of ...

There's been a lot of talk in the financial news lately about the size of the U.S. debt and the fact that foreign countries hold a large amount of it. Some legislators and economists fear that the U.S ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025 ranks 182 countries and territories: the global average dropped to 42, and 122 countries score below 50, signalling widespread public sector corruption.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The external debt of developing countries in 2025 jumped at its fastest pace since the pandemic, the World Bank said on Thursday, hitting a record $9.4 trillion. Most of the ...