On February 22, 2026, the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), financed by the New Development Bank (NDB), was officially launched in India. The complete 82-kilometer corridor connects Delhi with Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, offering a fast, efficient, and sustainable alternative to road travel.The service was inaugurated by H...
Comprehensive Capacity Building Workshop for Women Journalists on Gender-Sensitive Disaster ReportingUNDP Sri Lanka20 February 2026, COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: South Asian Women in Media - Sri Lanka (SAWM-SL) successfully conducted a comprehensive capacity-building workshop on ‘Gender-sensitive Disaster Reporting’ on February 17, bringing together a s...
Supportive external conditions and domestic policy tightening helped stabilize Lao PDR’s economic imbalances, though policies eased recently. Growth is expected to remain strong in the near term but moderate over the medium term. Significant vulnerabilities persist, and risks to the outlook are tilted to the downside.Policies should continue to focus on s...
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth showed a mixed picture across the 24 OECD countries for which data was available in the fourth quarter of 2025.Download in PDF (data tables included)GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth showed a mixed picture across the 24 OECD countries for which data was available in the fourth quarter of 2025. Compared with Q3 2025, te...
A high-level event on women and trade will be held on the margins of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé on 25 March to bring together women entrepreneurs, development partners, and WTO members.Registration for the event—which will feature the work of the WTO Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender, the International Trade Centre (ITC) SheT...
Pursat, 18 February 2026 – Participants gathered at the Provincial Department of Health in Pursat for the V-BIOCHAR handover and project closing. Implemented by ADRA Cambodia for the past twelve months, the project combined two natural soil enhancers- vermicompost and biochar- to restore fertility, retain water, and reduce dependency on imported chem...
19 February 202610:00 - 12:00 hrs. Movenpick-Mercure HotelLocation: Windhoek, NamibiaAdd to CalendarKey IssuesOn 19 February 2026, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), through its Extractive Commodities Section within the Division of International Trade and Commodities, will organize the launch of the report “Rapid assessment of value addition and diversifi...
A teacher uses a tablet in her classroom. In middle-income countries, AI usage is concentrated among ICT workers and teaching professionals. Copyright: Adobe StockUntil recently, researchers studying AI's labor market effects had to work with a fundamental limitation: Without actual usage data, we had to rely on theoretical measures of "exposure&q...
Economic, financial and monetary developmentsSummaryAt its meeting on 5 February 2026, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Its updated assessment reconfirmed that inflation should stabilise at its 2% target in the medium term. The economy remains resilient in a challenging global environment. Low unemployment, ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will release its latest Economic Survey of Mexico on Thursday, 26 February 2026. The report analyses the performance of the Mexican economy in the context of current global developments and challenges, highlighting both the main obstacles and the opportunities the country faces to strengt...
