News about developing countries, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

First-world countries have high GDP, diversified economies, and strong infrastructures. The term "first world" is outdated, shifting to "developed countries" due to simplification issues ...

Nine countries are known to have nuclear weapons, but it is the US and Russia that still account for almost 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal, which is why arms control has historically ...

Department of Data How America actually compares to other countries, and more! This week, we dive deep into new datasets from the World Bank and artificial intelligence researchers at Anthropic.

The World Bank on Tuesday said developing countries spent a record $1.4 trillion to service their foreign debts in 2023 as interest costs climbed to a 20-year high, squeezing budgets for ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Gadani is the world's third biggest shipbreaking hub. But many ships come there illegally from Europe. We went to Pakistan to figure out why international laws are ...

Overseas investment by businesses around the world is at risk of falling for a third straight year as rising tariffs and geopolitical tensions freeze big decisions about where to locate factories, the ...

Global public debt rose to $102-trillion in 2024 – with developing countries accounting for nearly one third of that amount – $31-trillion – and paying a record $921-billion in interest which strains ...

Flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into developing economies—a key propellant of economic growth and higher living ...

Israel is right to end terrorist activity in Gaza, and to be sure, it is essential that nuclear arms not get into the hands ...

PARIS: More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by ...