Development

News Hour: Pumpkin production in a sandy land is one of the solutions that has been helping extreme poor to move out of poverty in Bangladesh. Thousands of extremely poor living in the river embankment of...

News Hour: Economic growth increased in Southeast Europe in the past year, and has begun to reduce high unemployment rates, according to the latest World Bank South East Europe Regular Economic Report (SEE RER), launched today...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $1.5 billion to Bangladesh to build a dual-gauge railway line that will bring key trade and tourism to the southernmost parts of Bangladesh. The new railway, part...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan and grant amounting to $95.1 million to rehabilitate a section of the North–South Alternate Road Corridor in the Kyrgyz Republic. Once rehabilitated, the section will...

News Hour: The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have launched the fifth edition of the Pakistan Education Atlas. “The updated, credible and detailed information can assist...

News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing took part in a historic ceremony in Cartagena marking the formal signing of a peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is importing 55,000 metric tons of maize, thanks to a major contribution of nearly US$22 million from the Government of Malawi. The maize will meet the needs...

News Hour: Growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy is expected to continue at a healthy pace this year and next, even as the country faces a number of short term headwinds, says a new report by...

News Hour: This month IOM Ethiopia has relocated some 12,763 South Sudanese refugees from a transit site at the Pagak border entry point to Jewi, Tierkidi and Kule camps in Gambella region. “The situation in South...

News Hour: Economic developments in Cambodia in 2016 have broadly unfolded as expected, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released today. ADB, in an update of its flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook...