GENEVA — The United Nations’ development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help alleviate a growing debt crisis faced by the world’s poorest countries, including by writing off debts — not just rescheduling them. A report from UNDP released Tuesday comes amid meetings by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and …
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, during a United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan on Monday, said that India is monitoring developments with understandable concern, adding that the war-torn country is passing through a critical and challenging phase. He added that the UNDP recently assessed that there is an imminent threat of poverty levels rising from 72% …
