{"id":9527,"date":"2026-05-13T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:36:51","slug":"gap-between-rich-and-poor-nations-is-growing-even-wider-un-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/13\/gap-between-rich-and-poor-nations-is-growing-even-wider-un-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A United Nations report warns that the gap between rich and poor nations is widening as global promises to overhaul financial institutions remain unfulfilled. While the 2025 &#8220;Seville Commitment&#8221; aimed to close a $4 trillion annual development financing gap, actual development assistance dropped by a record 23% last year, driven largely by a 59% decline in U.S. aid. Current geopolitical tensions, specifically the &#8220;Iran war,&#8221; and rising trade barriers, including significantly higher tariffs, are further stifling growth in the world\u2019s poorest countries. UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres criticized the IMF and World Bank for failing these nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 11, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-global-gap-financial-imf-world-bank-9c4b03b02a6cf3e1081656bfaea2e057\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Nations report warns that the gap between rich and poor nations is widening as global promises to overhaul financial institutions remain unfulfilled. While the 2025 &#8220;Seville Commitment&#8221; aimed to close a $4 trillion annual development financing gap, actual development assistance dropped by a record 23% last year, driven largely by a 59% decline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9728,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}