New York, Nov 12 (JEN): Greater steps must be taken to avoid or mitigate debt crises, particularly among developing countries which, for the first time in more than a decade, are seeing the ...

New York, Nov 8 (JEN): Improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals has led to less price volatility than in recent years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organ ...

New York, Nov 6 (JEN): The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Tuesday hailed a multi-partner project focused on improving global sustainable tuna fisheries by reducing i ...

New York, Nov 1 (JEN): The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Thursday reported that foreign investment in developing and transition economies rose to USD 745 billi ...

New York, Oct 22 (JEN): Noting Seychelles’ efforts to develop a marine-based economy while reducing ocean degradation and alleviating poverty, an independent United Nations human righ ...

New York, Oct 17 (JEN): United Nations humanitarian agencies are arriving in the central Philippine island of Bohol to assist the Government with the response to a 7.2-magnitude earthquake t ...

Washington, Oct 17 (JEN) The 16-day partial shutdown of the US government is officially over on Thursday with President Barack Obama signing a bill that ends the stalemate and raised the deb ...

New York, Oct 15 (JEN): Countries must adopt new economic policies to adjust to structural changes in the world economy sparked by the onset of the global financial crisis five years ago, ac ...

Washington, Oct 1 (JEN) Differences among the Republican lawmakers in the House and the Democrats in the Senate over the spending over President Obama’s signature health care law, led ...