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55 countries face a health worker crunch linked to COVID-19: WHO

·March 14, 2023·2 min read

According to the UN agency, African nations have been worst-hit by the phenomenon, with 37 countries on the continent facing health worker shortages that threaten their chances of achieving universal health care by 2030 – a key Sustainable Development Goals pledge. The actions of wealthy countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...

LDC5: World leaders back ‘blueprint for recovery, renewal, resilience’ in least developed countries

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·March 10, 2023·5 min read

The Doha Political Declaration was adopted to a round of applause in the plenary hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre, where LDC5 has been under way since 5 March. Ushering in new era of solidarity, and enormous socio-economic benefits for world’s 46 least developed countries, today’s action comes nearly...

LDC5: UN conference calls for more inclusive and fair digital transformation in world’s least developed countries

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·March 6, 2023·5 min read

On Monday at the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), a series of roundtable discussions saw global leaders, ci confront two of the most fundamental hurdles facing LDCs: how to make better use of science, technology and innovation (STI), and how to promote structural transformations that can...

No more excuses; Guterres calls for ‘revolution of support’ to aid world’s least developed countries

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·March 6, 2023·8 min read

Three years after the world began its epic struggle against COVID-19, the least developed countries (LDCs) – already grappling with severe structural impediments to sustainable development and highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks – have found themselves stranded amid a rising tide of crisis, uncertainty, climate chaos and deep...

‘The time has come to do justice for the least developed countries,’ says UN chief Guterres

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·March 4, 2023·8 min read

“Countries with the least need support the most. And you need it now. You represent one in eight people on earth. But your countries are trapped in vicious cycles that make development difficult, if not impossible,” Mr. Guterres told the Summit of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), in Doha, Qatar Today’s...

5 things you need to know the world’s least developed countries

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·March 3, 2023·5 min read

The conference of Least Developed Countries or LDCs takes place every 10 years and this year’s meeting from 5 to 9 March 2023, known as LDC5, will focus on returning the needs of the 46 designated countries to the top of the global agenda and supporting them as they strive...

Guterres calls on countries to fully fund $397 million quake appeal for Syria

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·February 14, 2023·2 min read

António Guterres told reporters outside the Security Council in New York that aid “must get through from all sides” and the funding would cover an initial period of three months. He said a similar appeal is being finalised for survivors across the border in Türkiye. ‘Immense’ need In the immediate aftermath of...

World Bank: sharp, long-lasting slowdown to hit developing countries hard

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·January 11, 2023·2 min read

Globally, growth continues to slow sharply due to rising inflation and interest rates, reduced investment, and supply disruptions caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Any new adverse development could further push the global economy into recession, said the World Bank. This includes higher-than-expected inflation rates, abrupt rises in interest...

Countries held the line against malaria cases and deaths in 2021: WHO report

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·December 8, 2022·4 min read

risks, building resilience and accelerating research, there is every reason to dream of a malaria-free future”. Lifesaving bednets In 2020, more insecticide treated bednets (ITNs) – the primary defense in most malaria-endemic countries – were distributed than in any year on record. And distributions in 2021 were strong overall, similar...

‘Critical opportunity’ to protect against biological warfare, countries hear

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·November 29, 2022·2 min read

In a speech to the Biological Weapons Convention, Izumi Nakamitsu explained that the issue of verifying whether biological toxins are being made has been deadlocked for 20 years. “While bringing biosafety and biosecurity to a much higher prominence, the pandemic also demonstrated the disruption that could be caused if biological...

Countries’ climate promises still not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming: UN Report |

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·October 27, 2022·3 min read

The current combined National Determined Contributions (NDCs)—meaning the countries’ national efforts to tackle emissions and mitigate climate change—are leading our planet to at least 2.5 degrees warming, a level deemed catastrophic by scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Increasing instead of decreasing In 2019, the IPCC indicated...

UN trade body calls for halting cryptocurrency rise in developing countries |

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·August 10, 2022·2 min read

Although private digital currencies have rewarded some individuals and institutions, they are an unstable financial asset that can bring social risks and costs, the agency warned. UNCTAD said their benefits to some are overshadowed by the threats they pose to financial stability, domestic resource mobilization, and the security of monetary...