Results for government and private aid: 60

ROME, Feb 12 - The world's poor are bearing the brunt of the global recession and finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich nations meeting in Rome this week must take action to help...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 - The World Bank plans to lend Pakistan $2 billion this year, the bank said in a statement on Saturday, as the South Asian country struggles to combat inflation and prop up...

WAREGADUD, Kenya, Feb 8 - Clouds of dust rising above the harsh scrub herald the arrival of more livestock at a borehole in northeastern Kenya, the end for some of a 45-km (28-mile) trek for...

GBOLUMUE, Liberia, Feb 6 - Martha Kermel holds out rail-thin arms covered with a latticework of scratches from her encounter with a plague of caterpillars that has devastated crops and spread fear through this corner...

KINSHASA, Feb 5 - Democratic Republic of Congo announced its third hefty rise in interest rates in two months on Thursday to fight rising inflation, but said more needed to be done to stabilise the...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 - U.S. President Barack Obama wants to reform the International Monetary Fund to give developing nations a greater say in the institution, U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee, Timothy Geithner, said on Thursday. "We...

SEOUL, Jan 6 - North Korea has replaced five ministers in the past few months, a South Korea government agency said on Tuesday, while a leading daily...

Dec 28 - Bangladesh's two main political parties have similar manifestoes for Monday's election that aims to bring the South Asian country of 140 million people back to democracy, ending nearly two years of emergency...

HARARE, Dec 21 - South Africa reiterated on Sunday it would only hand over $30 million in agricultural aid to Zimbabwe after a unity government is formed, denying a Zimbabwe media report it had reversed...

HAVANA, Dec 16 - After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba planted thousands of urban cooperative gardens to offset reduced rations of imported food. Now, in the wake of three hurricanes that...