The impact on global growth of the Middle East violence has so far been contained. That’s not the case for Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, which were already struggling. By Patricia Cohen More than a ...

At the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), young people are not simply participants in development and peacebuilding – they are essential partners in shaping more inclusive and resilient ...

The UN Development Program (UNDP) warned on Tuesday that the ongoing war in the Middle East could cut the Arab region’s economic output by as much as $194 billion, reversing more than a year of growth ...

Investing just $6 billion into targeted cash payments or energy subsidies to offset energy prices sent soaring by the war in the Middle East could prevent 32 million people worldwide from slipping ...

Friday marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, which was born in 1945 at the crossroads of history. The world is once again in transition, many believe it is heading into chaos. But the ...

Top finance officials from around the world this week underscored their willingness to help rebuild the enclave of Gaza as the World Bank and United Nations worked to finalize a new cost estimate of ...

'The United Nations-led operation has prevented what could have been an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe on a colossal scale'. The United Nations (UN) has successfully completed the transfer ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

(Recasts, previous Seoul) By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.N. Development Program said on Monday it suspended operations in North Korea after Pyongyang failed to agree to ...

Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Wednesday's car bomb attack on UN office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. MFA statement said the ...