He emphasised that China’s success demonstrates that poverty is not an irreversible condition for developing nations. Citing ...

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 ...

China has dramatically curtailed its lending in recent years. Now, it's emerging as the largest debt collector for many of the world's poorest nations — a shift that threatens to undermine poverty ...

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 ...