The Lao government is stepping up preparations to leave the United Nations' list of least developed countries, or LDC, in 2026, urging a shift from reliance on aid to investment-driven growth.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded the list of countries facing travel restrictions in the latest move by his administration to crack down on migration following the shooting of two National ...

The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) categorize their members according to the level of per capita gross domestic product (GDP). A country with a per capita GDP exceeding a ...

President Donald Trump has suggested the U.S. could join the list of countries whose residents pay no income tax as he touted the effectiveness of tariffs to generate funds for federal coffers. Trump ...

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The gap between developing nations' debt servicing costs and new financing hit a more than 50-year high of $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the World Bank said on ...

A Florida program is available to help low-income residents pay for energy services. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is federally funded, and it's designed to help ...

Fast food has become so expensive that many low-income families are being priced out, according to a report. McDonald’s chief executive Christopher Kempczinski told investors last week that fast-food ...

Let's put politics aside, as if that were possible, and look at how the craziness of the last few days is affecting people. A week ago, President Donald Trump announced that the 42 million Americans ...

A delay in SNAP benefits mixed with a decline in foot traffic has many stores, restaurants and food producers concerned about sales. By Julie Creswell and Linda Qiu Jimmy Wright, the owner of Wright’s ...

Large-scale, government-led cash transfer programs drove significant improvements in health outcomes across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to a major new study in The Lancet from ...