Even after gaining political independence, many developing nations have struggled to break free from this entrenched economic dependency, still grappling with the long-lasting impact of their former colonizers. SETTING STANDARDS, BLOCKING UPGRADES For most developing countries, low-tech production sectors h...
Belt and Road cooperation focuses on Global South countries, and has become a link connecting nations and promoting the modernization process of the Global South, said Luis Antonio Paulino, director of the Confucius Institute at Sao Paulo State University. Looking to the future, the BRI will conti...
G20 countriesMarine protected area (MPA) coverage is commonly used as a metric of progress for the marine conservation movement. Reporting the extent to which governments are contributing to global MPA targets (e.g., the IUCN World Parks Congress recently called for a global target of...
Dominique Fernand Burgeon, director of the FAO liaison office with the United Nations in Geneva, said that to reduce disruptions to global agricultural trade, the first step should be to improve market transparency and promote policy dialogue. ...
Or did people forget which country's intelligence agency helped overthrow the governments in Chile, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama? Instead of conquering other nations through the barrel of the gun, or subverting regimes they don't like by force, or sometimes by de...
根据第五段中“In countries where people have difficulty even finding a bank or a doctor,(在一些国家,人们甚至很难找到银行或医生)”以及第六段“The “digital divide” is narrowing in many places. Last decade, the number of Internet users doubled in the G20 nations, but the biggest gains ...
The"digitaldivide"isnarrowinginmanyplaces.Lastdecade,thenumberofInternetusersdoubledintheG20nations,butthebiggestgainscameinemergingnationssuchasBrazilandIndia.Thedigitalimpactonproductivity,thekeytosustainedeconomicgrowth,isvisibleontheground.Manygovernmentsaremovingservicesonlinetomakethemmoreaccessibleandlessimmune...
The G20 have set a target, reaffirming the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, of a global average cost for sending a $200 remittance of no more than 3 percent by 2030, with no corridors higher than 5 percent. However, as the Chart of the Week shows, some costs are many times...
“As we are progressing with the energy transition, and we are indeed progressing, as that progression accelerates, the blocking action we are seeing from countries like Saudi Arabia, let’s be frank, are increasing. And that’s something we saw across the board in so many different rooms th...
G20 vs. the U.S.: The fossil fuel paradox The nations of the Group of Twenty (G20) may have agreed to begin phasing out fossil fuels in 2009 due to their inefficient and polluting qualities, but not every G20 member is following through on its word. According to Oil Change Internation...