Turkish economist, politician and former head of the United Nations Development Program Kemal Dervis died Monday at the age of 74, Turkish news outlets reported. He was being treated for an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations Development Program will move close ‍to 400 staff from its New York headquarters ‍to Germany and Spain, it said late on Monday, following funding cuts by the United States. “The ...

According to a UN Development Program (UNDP) report released on Monday, the level of bias against women remains unchanged over the last decade. According to the Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) survey ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, reported that the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program will serve as a “breeding ground for contemporary slavery” ...