International development

Everybody realizes that the conditions have to be met, that quality comes before speed, that the strategy is not an invitation to do away with conditionality, Hahn, who is in charge of EU's neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, told an informal meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The meeting on Friday gathered EU and Western Balkan foreign ministers.

Turkey provided official development assistance worth $21 billion to 170 countries from 2010 to 2016, according to data from the state development aid agency.

The Bulgarians are fortunate enough to live in the economically developed part of the planet but can not yet skip the threshold and enter the group of the highest income countries in the world where is all the rest of the EU except our neighbors Romania and Croatia.

Since the first memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Greece and its creditors in 2010, one word has been the central point of reference: "conditionality." In other words, the conditions attached to the loans from our European partners and the International Monetary Fund are based on a certain logic: money for Greece in order for it not to go bankrupt and cover its current expenditures, as

The 11th edition of the Index reveals a number of surprising global, regional and national trends in economic and social wellbeing, including an alarming deterioration in global security and a widening gap between the most and least prosperous nations.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to allocate two million dollars to the civil sector in Serbia, according to a document RT has seen.

The funds have been set aside to, among other things, strengthen the ties between the civil, private sector and the state, Sputnik is reporting.

Talks about increasing public sector wages and pensions in Serbia will continue in the weeks ahead, the IMF has said in a statement.

In an opinion article by signed by J. Kyle Bass in Bloomberg titled “The IMF needs to stop torturing Greece”, the author, who is a chief investment officer for Haynman Capital Management with a stake in Greek banking shares, urges the IMF to ease up on its harsh demands from Greece and consider writing off part of what is owed to it by the embattled country. From Bloomberg:

European companies suffer from "promise fatigue" over China's failure to follow through on pledges to open its market, the EU Chamber of Commerce in China said on Sept. 19.

The chamber issued an annual 400-page report detailing the regulatory barriers that continue to hinder investment in the world's second-largest economy.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday met with International Monetary Fund mission chief James Roaf and representatives of an IMF technical mission to discuss the organisation's current arrangement with Serbia.