Bangladesh Improves Business Climate, but More Remains to Be Done
Bangladesh carried out three
business reforms during the past year, the most in a decade, and would need to
accelerate the reform pace to further improve...
Four Arab Countries Among World’s Top 10 Business Climate Improvers
Economies in the Middle East and North Africa region
implemented the most reforms on record to ease doing business for domestic
small and medium-sized enterprises and...
Armenia Narrows the Gap with the Global Regulatory Frontiers
Economies in Europe and Central Asia accelerated an
already strong momentum to improve their business climates, enacting 56 reforms
and leading globally in reforms on paying...
Lives at risk if wireless technology demands are not held in check
Amid growing competition for radio wave space due to
new wireless technologies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday called on governments to protect
radio frequencies allocated to potentially...
ADB’s New 5-Year Country Strategy Supports Economic Diversification, Inclusive Growth in Cambodia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has endorsed a
new 5-year country partnership strategy (CPS) that lays out the institution’s
support for Cambodia’s goal of becoming an...
EU, Iceland and Norway agree to deepen their cooperation in climate action
Climate change is a global threat and demands
global action: the more countries join forces, the bigger the chances we can
master this major challenge of...
Rapid proliferation of small UAS and their threats boost market growth prospects
Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Counter UAS Market, Forecast to 2024, reveals that heightened demand for commercial unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) by the...
EU-Jordan cooperation remains strong and diverse
With 2019 marking the 40th anniversary of the
European Union's presence in Jordan, the partnership between the EU and Jordan
remains strong and diverse.
Today, the report...
Colombia must boost digital transformation and take further steps to ensure benefits are shared by all
Colombia has taken important actions in recent years
to foster digital transformation, but more needs to be done to ensure that the
opportunities and benefits of...
New report reveals progress towards eliminating plastic pollution
The positive scale of global efforts to prevent plastic pollution has
been revealed in a new report published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration...