Responsible investment and sustainable development growing priority for private equity
Responsible investment - involving the management of  environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues - is an increasingly significant consideration for both private equity houses...
Turkey needs to step up investment in renewables to curb emissions
Turkey will see its greenhouse gas emissions continue their steady rise of recent years without concrete actions to improve energy efficiency and increase the...
Innovation Paves Way for Next Stage of Global Energy Transformation
Countries at the forefront of the energy transformation are getting more than a third of their energy from variable renewables like solar and wind,...
Portugal can use its economic recovery to build up resilience
Portugal’s economic recovery is now well established, with GDP back to pre-crisis levels, a substantially lower unemployment rate and renewed investment and domestic consumption...
Navigating Sri Lanka’s Demographic Change
The latest edition of the World Bank’s Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) finds the island in a challenging macroeconomic landscape. The post-conflict high growth...
Poor working conditions are main global employment challenge
Poor quality employment is the main issue for global labour markets, with millions of people forced to accept inadequate working conditions, according to a...
Boosting adult learning essential to help people adapt to future of work
Many OECD countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according...
Colombia’s development agenda needs to prioritize productive transformation
To build on its socio-economic progress, Colombia needs to fast track its productive transformation, according to the OECD’s Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR) of...
Slower Growth, Better Prospects for Papua New Guinea Economy
To facilitate broad-based and inclusive growth in Papua New Guinea (PNG), increasing the quality of human capital through better education and health services and...
The productivity agenda: Moving beyond cost reduction in financial services
In a new report titled: The productivity agenda – moving beyond cost reduction in financial services, PwC sets out the important challenges and opportunities...