At the initiative of both China and African countries, FOCAC was inaugurated at its first Ministerial Conference in Beijing in October 2000, with the goals of responding to the challenges emerging from economic globalization, and seeking common development. Over the past two decades, FOCAC has becom...
We include articles that focus on at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals, at the local, regional or global scale, and we are pleased to invite submissions of studies framed in a similar way. With a growing overview of where we stand and which measures make a difference, we can...
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to limit global warming are not equally distributed around the world. Ensuring that all economies can achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions and meet their climate goals will require scaling up cross-border flows of goods, services,...
In a broad sense, the WLEF nexus refers to the complex relationships among water, land, energy, and food. These factors affect, interact with, and restrict each other and are influenced by external social, economic, and environmental influences (Figure 2). Based on the analysis of the main...
These measures are typically classified as "M" s and fall along a spectrum from narrow to broadmonetary aggregates. Typically, the "M" s range from M0 to M3, with M2 representing a fairly broad measure. M2 is a more comprehensive calculation than M1 because it includes assets that are hig...
this would increase annual migration flows by an order of magnitude and vastly overwhelm the absorptive capacity of receiving nations [12]. Currently, sending and receiving countries are scrambling to devise policies to attain their migration goals. The problems that would be generated by massive immi...
For a broad overview of the state of our workforce, check out ourAmerica Works Data Center. An in-depth look at how the worker shortage is impacting the nation ishere,and a state-by-state breakdown tracking the worker shortage ishere. The data is availablehere. ...
In fact, the ability to create coherence between and within the very broad policy areas of the SDGs is both a huge challenge and an absolute necessity (Mortensen and Petersen, 2017; Nordbeck and Steurer, 2016; Verschaeve et al., 2016). The SDGs are a series of 17 goals, each one ...
While many of these investments would produce a return, their financing or pricing is not yet set up.And that’s just the start: as we explain in this article, even if the global economy were to get these three goals notionally right, there are contingencies among them that, if left ...
First of all, I have multi-dimensional abilities such as active listening, verbal expression, and interpersonal skills; Secondly, I am good at having a clear understanding of myself, others, and the situation in the process of communication, clarifying my communication goals, and being good at ...