Colombia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in building economic resilience, creating jobs and driving inclusive growth. This report shows that Colombian firms that innovate and engage with industry associations invest more in addressing climate change.
Small firms are at the heart of Eswatini’s participation in international value chains. But they often struggle to trade due to production capacity constraints, including inadequate managerial skills and certification, failure to engage with business support organizations and weak linkages with suppliers and buyers.
This sixth global report provides data about 14 major sustainability standards for bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, forestry products, oil palm, soybeans, sugarcane and tea. Features of the current market context are continued, but there was slower growth or even decline for some commodities and standards, as well as continued dominance in some sectors of single-sector standards.
On 20 December 2022, a total of 12,142,675 COVID-19 cases and 256,470 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Since the detection of COVID-19 on the African continent (in February 2020), 53 (96%) AU MS have experienced three distinct COVID-19 waves, 48 (87%) MS have experienced four waves, 28 MS have experienced five waves, 6 MS have experienced a sixth wave and one MS (Kenya) has experienced a seventh wave.
Globally, more than 3 million new cases and 10 000 deaths have been reported in the week of 26 December 2022 to 1 January 2023. This represents a reduction in weekly cases and deaths of 22% and 12%, respectively. However, those trends need to be interpreted considering the reduction in testing and delays in reporting in many countries during the year-end holiday season.
Globally, nearly 10.5 million new cases and over 90 000 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (9 January to 5 February 2023), a decrease of 89% and 8%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days. As of 5 February 2023, over 754 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally.
Globally, nearly 4.5 million new cases and 32 000 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (6 February to 5 March 2023), a decrease of 58% and 65%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days. As of 5 March 2023, over 759 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally.
In October 2022, the first-ever Dutch Global Health Strategy was released. This article wants to unpack the strategy by positioning the policy within a wider context, and looking at its role and significance for foreign and domestic health policy.
This concept note develops the concept of “migration narrative success” (MNS) in view to create an analytical and practical tool that can facilitate and enhance exchange among different disciplinary perspectives within the project,
Este artículo explora dos narrativas sobre subalternidad promovidas desde el Estado y grupos de poder conservadores en Guatemala y El Salvador: la narrativa del comunista y la del marero, haciendo hincapié en su papel como soporte cultural del autoritarismo.
Tunisia’s economy is falling off and the country has become less attractive to foreign investors. Despite the agreement reached in October by the Tunisian authorities with the International Monetary Fund on an extended facility to support macroeconomic stability, the country is confronting a very serious crisis.
Limits, both individual and collective, will be tested in 2023, whether it be inflation, food security, the energy crisis, rising pressure on global supply chains and geopolitical competition, international security and governance systems breaking down, and the collective capacity to respond to it all.
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than advanced countries.
This paper analyzes the interlinkages between climate shocks, domestic conflicts, and policy resilience in Africa. It builds on a Correlated Random Effect model to assess these interrelationships on a broad sample of 51 African countries over the 1990-2018 period.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to have a devastating social and economic impact on the country. Civilian casualties are mounting, over a third of the population has been displaced, and access to basic needs such as electricity, water, and heating are at risk while winter is coming.
Complex interactions between science, society, and economics systems make biodiversity conservation a challenging task. Systems thinking can support more integrative biodiversity interventions, to avoid silos and create shared understandings of how to conserve biodiversity.
Empowering rural women and girls is intrinsic to climate action, inclusive food systems and achieving the SDGs. This evidence gap map visualises the areas in which most research on effective interventions for women’s empowerment is concentrated—and where there are gaps.
This report highlights the remarkable development progress in South Asia and how the region can advance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Steps include a renewed push toward greater trade and financial openness, while responding proactively to the distributional impact and dislocation associated with this structural transformation.
One of the key features of today's global economy is an ‘offshore world’ of financial structures, institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection and tax exemption.
This volume focuses on the different challenges of language policy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It reveals the complex and reciprocal relations between multiple indigenous African languages, Creole languages and former colonial languages and it constitutes an opportunity to notice recurring patterns as well as distinctive characteristics. Therefore, everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.
