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The world’s poorest countries are being hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs and “dual women” of deep deductions for international aid budgets, warning senior business experts, reducing global efforts to erase poverty and deal with climate change.

The toxic combination of “a trade war and a support war” is squeezing small developing countries that are still recovering from the Kovid -19 epidemic and the rising cost of international debt.

“This is an ideal storm because when the past has been cut in aid, the business is usually durable and approximate, it is not double poignant,” said Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director of the International Trade Center at the World Trade Organization and the United Nations joint agency Geneva.

He said that the risk of 40 to 50 percent tariff of Trump on countries such as Lesotho, Madagascar and Mauritius is seriously at risk to severely damage those economies, he said.

Former Jamaican diplomatic Coke-Hamilton was speaking to the Financial Times before the inauguration of a United Nations conference in Spain on Monday, designed to renew global support for the 2030 sustainable development goals on Monday.

This is the first such conference in a decade, but the US was formally withdrawn from the summit earlier this month. The Trump administration said in March that it “rejects and condemn the goals”, which agreed in 2015 and aims to eradicate poverty and promote sustainable development by the end of the decade.

The Trump administration has also announced a large -scale cut in its aid budget, USAID is expected to fall from $ 60BN in 2024, decreasing than $ 30BN in 2026, As Calculated by Washington-based Think-Tank Center for Global Development.

Other countries including France, Germany and UK are also cutting aid spending.

CGD’s senior partner Charles Kenny said that a combination of assistance and uncertainty about the world economy would make it difficult to attract international investment in developing countries.

“If this sustainable development goals are not real death, it is definitely taking us away from them,” he said.

Assistance industry analysts warned that Release Many final-minute collapse in major areas to agree at the Sevile Conference, including commitments to phase fossil fuels and a United Nations process to create an inter-governmental mechanism for managing developing countries.

The German think-tank, the Global Policy Forum Bodo Elmers, in Europe, said the summit that the summit turned into an omission opportunity to carry forward the Global Development Agenda.

He said, “There has been a massive increase in public revenue share in developing countries in developing countries, often with expensive loans from private developers. UK or Germany borrows at 3 to 4 percent, developing countries are at 6 to 8 percent,” he said.

Joseph Steiglitz, Professor at Columbia University and Co-Speaker Jubilee report Commission by the heavenly Pope Francis, said that interest rates were charging private sector lenders to developed countries “could be more appropriate than risk”.

He said that many countries were unable to properly fund the necessary public services due to their high debt burden. The Jubilee report has been calculated that 750mn Africans, or about 57 percent of the continent population, live in countries that were spending more on external debt services than health or education.

The International Chamber of Commerce, which is present in 170 countries around the world, would propose reforms in Monday’s conference with the aim of addressing high obstacles to lend projects in developing countries.

When issuing credits for projects in low-income countries, lending institutions usually need to hold four to seven times more quantity in the collateral under basal III financial stability requirements.

The ICC conference will argue that the “targeted explanation” for the basal framework can unlock important versions of private investment to developing countries that represent 25 percent of the global GDP.

John Denton, General Secretary of the International Chamber of Commerce John Denton said, “The model led by development aid has been reduced, if not broken. Now the question is what will be replaced? It must be a private sector model that can create an environment for the local pool of capital.”

Additional reporting by David Pilling in London. Data visualization by Amy Borat