The digital revolution is transforming economies and thus livelihoods and lives, but developing countries will be left behind unless there is greater policy co-operation, says Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati says it will take a global effort to end poverty and suggests there is enough money in the world to do so, but getting hold of it is the problem

Major donors pledged yesterday to give Afghanistan $16bn (€13.02bn) in development aid through 2015 as they try to prevent it from sliding back into chaos when foreign troops leave, but demanded reforms to fight widespread corruption.

Whether they have a strong political pedigree or none, women are climbing to the top of Asian politics, writes Vishakha Desai

THE global death toll from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 yesterday after Indonesia’s Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of thousands of people previously listed as missing.