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Delhi world's most polluted capital, Begusarai top polluted metro says IQAir
Bihar's Begusarai emerged as the world's most polluted metropolitan area while Delhi was identified…
PTI
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Half of world's poorest need urgent debt relief: UNDP
Fifty-four developing economies accounting for more than half of the world's poorest people need ur…
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Ukraine needs $1 trillion to rebuild. The country's oligarchs plan to loot it.
Insiders fear that under Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's right-hand man, Ukraine's influx of foreign aid …
Paul Starobin
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Putin tells Western countries their sanctions will lead to food shortages in the 'poorest regions of the world' and cause migration to spike, report says
"We will have to be more careful about food supplies abroad, especially carefully monitor the expor…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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World's poorest countries witness 9.5% increase in external debts, says World Bank
The total external debt of the world's poorest countries increased by 9.5 per cent to a record $744…
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The world's 1,000 richest people have already bounced back from COVID-19 wealth losses, but it could take more than a decade for the poorest to recover, Oxfam warns
The top 10 billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, have enough money combined to pay for …
Kate Duffy
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Global economy braces for slowest growth in three decades, World Bank report warns
The global economy is hurtling towards its weakest half-decade performance in 30 years, according t…
ANI
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Here's how much the world's wealthiest, middle class, and poorest make in a year
The new World Inequality Report found that the wealth gap between the world's poorest and richest i…
Jason Lalljee
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World population to hit 8 billion today; India to overtake China as most-populous country by 2030
According to the UN report, this unprecedented growth can be attributed to the gradual increase in …
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Most of the world's poorest countries haven't administered a single COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to the People's Vaccine Alliance
As wealthier nations speed up their COVID-19 vaccine rollout, poorer countries are being left behin…
Grace Dean
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A fire just razed a slum in the heart of one of Korea's ritziest neighborhoods. It highlights the vast wealth gap and tight proximity in which Seoul's richest and poorest live.
A stone's throw from Gangnam, a fire broke out at one of the city's worst-kept secrets: a slum, hom…
Cheryl Teh,Amanda Goh
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China now bails out countries after pushing them into 'debt-trap'
American officials have accused China of engaging in "debt trap diplomacy" that is saddling countri…
ANI
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The world's poorest countries should consider launching a $465 billion cash handout programme to fight the coronavirus, a UN report says
"Bailouts and recovery plans cannot only focus on big markets and big business," UNDP administrator…
Shalini Nagarajan
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The two generals fighting in Sudan helped Putin plunder the country's gold to fund Russia's war in Ukraine
Tensions between the two rival generals erupted in violence across Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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World Bank President says COVID-19 pandemic is causing the one of the deepest recessions since Great Depression
He told reporters that given the extent of the economic contraction, there was a rising risk of dis…
PTI
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The 23 poorest countries in the world
Following the Democratic Republic of Congo are Zimbabwe, where in 2013 people earned $589.25 on ave…
Barbara Tasch
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Indian migrants to send home a record $100 billion in 2022 says World Bank
In its latest Migration and Development Brief, World Bank said remittance flows to India will rise …
ANI
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Most of India's statewide heat action plans are inadequate to deal with local risks, new CPR report says
Only two HAPs carry out and present vulnerability assessments (systematic studies to locate where t…
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RANKED: The 28 poorest countries in the world - where people live on less than $1,000 per year
Most of the countries populating the top of this ranking are under authoritarian regimes where corr…