The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...
Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) Fernando Nascimento hired Ashley Morash ’26 and Ben Israel ’25 this summer to help him tackle some of the more persistent dimensions of ...
Poverty is not only the primary attribute of most developing countries, but also expected to contribute to environmental degradation. With the recent rapid, but yet to be comprehensively developed ...
Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...
By VICTOR DADA Developing countries stand at a historic turning point. Their current socio-economic struggles: deepening poverty, weak institutions, infrastructural collapse, elite capture, political ...
Out of approximately 195 countries, there are 152 developing countries in the world. An estimated 6.74 billion people in total live in these developing countries; an outstanding number when comparing ...
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Dependency theory and condition of the poor in developing world

For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise ...
Developing countries saw record $741B debt outflows in 2022–2024. World Bank’s new report shows rising costs, record restructurings, and mounting risks.
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries Implications for Public Policy Mahmood Hasan Khan ©2001 International Monetary Fund March 2001 [Rural Poverty in Developing Countries] [The ...