Norway has been a member of the United Nations ever since the organisation was founded in 1945. In fact, the first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian. The UN has always been a mainstay of Norway’s participation in the ... + More

For developing countries with pressing investment needs, a certain level of debt is both normal and natural. If loans are used for investments that are sound in socio-economic terms, an increase in a country’s debt burden may accelerate ... + More

Norway is a member of the World Bank, three regional development banks (the African, the Asian and the Inter-American), and two independent development funds (the Nordic Development Fund and the International Fund for Agricultural ... + More

23/02/2006 :: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to lead a panel that aims to strengthen the UN's work in the world's poorest countries. + More