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Growing links with the diaspora: An interview with Almaz Negash financialfortunemedia.com/gr…
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WTO Public Forum kicks off in a few hours.
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WTO Welcomes new member
Timor-Leste joined the WTO on 30 August as its 166th member, after seven and a half years of negotiating its accession terms with WTO members. It is the 11th least-developed country (LDC) to accede to the WTO since the organization's establishment in 1995.
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Reglobalization: Trade in a geopoliticized world
High-level panel with Richard Baldwin (PIIE) et al,
September 10, 2024, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
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This year's Public Forum, entitled “Re-globalization: Better Trade for a Better World”, will feature 139 sessions from 10 to 13 September.
ALT This year's Public Forum, entitled “Re-globalization: Better Trade for a Better World”, will feature 139 sessions from 10 to 13 September. Sessions are organised by WTO member governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations, academia, and international organisations.
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Global goods trade has continued to recover in the third quarter of 2024 after demand for traded goods stalled in 2023, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is having its moment. Some experts predict that AI will usher in an era of boundless productivity and techno-utopia; others see a new realm of great-power competition and the end of humanity. Europe and Americas are talking ; Africa is silent on AI.
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UAE also ranked third in Total Local Energy Production and Wastewater Treatment Efficiency, in addition to securing sixth place in Water Production, according to the Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Yearbook, and Legatum Prosperity Index.
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How did the UAE pull ahead so quickly? The UAE dominated the global rankings for 2023 in five indicators—Access to Electricity, Satisfaction with the Roads & Highways System, Energy Infrastructure, City Management, Access to Clean Fuels and Technologies for Cooking.
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Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland have been named the world’s most competitive economies in the 2023 World Competitiveness Ranking published by the IMD on Tuesday 20th June. The only African countries in the survey, Botswana assumed position 59 and South Africa 61.
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This year the IMD ranked 64 countries, measuring “how nations and enterprises manage the totality of their competencies to achieve increased prosperity" using 336 criteria in four broad categories—economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency & infrastructure.
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Today we shall be looking at nation’s competitiveness. A nation’s competitiveness is created not inherited. Competitive advantage is created and sustained through a highly localized process—improving business environment being part of that process.
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In order to address inequality reasonably well, governments in southern countries need to address their debt overhang, which will take time, and make the necessary structural reforms to unlock their potential.
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