Meanings of wealthy governments in English

The coup prompted wealthy governments to cut vital aid and drove away tourists and investors.

Oxfam also criticised the G7 failure to explain clearly how wealthy governments would scale up public climate finance.

Oxfam also criticized the G7 failure to explain clearly how wealthy governments would scale up public climate finance.

The CDI ranks wealthy governments on how well they live up to their potential to help poor countries.

IIED Director Andrew Norton said the least-developed countries currently get less than a third of all international climate funding provided by wealthy governments.

She said "advance purchase agreements" and other deals securing medicines for wealthy governments could drain the global supply chain of effective medicines.

That compares to nearly $153 billion in total development assistance from the world's wealthy governments in 2019.

The ambiguity of what wealthy governments can report as climate finance for vulnerable countries - including loans and export credit guarantees - has been controversial.

Speakers criticized the reluctance of wealthy governments to provide financial support for people left hungry, water-short and homeless by worsening extreme weather and rising seas.

The think tank called on wealthy governments to adopt a "matched-funding approach", meaning they would provide climate funding equivalent to national spending in poor countries.

Wealthy governments are under pressure to meet a pledge to raise $100 billion every year for that purpose from 2020.

Wealthy governments were reluctant to make hard-and-fast commitments to boost finance in Sendai, although Japan on Saturday promised $4 billion of help over four years.