Italy: Pro-growth reforms and government support key to a greener and jobs-rich recovery
The post-COVID recovery offers an exceptional opportunity for Italy to tackle long-standing obstacles to job creation and the raising of living standards, according to...
Blue sky thinking: 5 things to know about air pollution
Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United Nations as...
4.1 billion lack social safety net
More than four billion people live without any welfare protection today to cushion them from crisis, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday, while...
Lao PDR: Economic Fallout from COVID-19 Deepened
Economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and from the efforts to contain it, deepened in Lao PDR over the second quarter of 2021 as...
Artificial Intelligence is Critical Enabler of the Energy Transition
The World Economic Forum has published a new study on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to accelerate a more equitable energy transition...
These five cities are taking aim at air pollution
Around the world, more than 90 per cent of people breathe in air that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers potentially harmful.
While the source...
Lack of Water Linked to 10 Percent of the Rise in Global Migration
As climate change accelerates a global water crisis, rainfall variability is expected to be one of the contributing forces in migration, according to a...
No end to Yemen civil war on the horizon
No progress has been made by parties in Yemen to reach a political agreement to settle the civil war, which is now in its...
Lao PDR: Economy Recovers then Falters Again under COVID-19
The Lao economy is on course for moderately improved growth in 2021, despite the second wave of COVID-19 denting the promising economic recovery made...
Islamic State threat moves online, expands across Africa
Two decades after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, terror networks Al-Qaida and Islamic State – also known as Da’esh – continue...