Representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the European Union (EU), pose for a group photo during the ICT equipment handover ceremony, with partner Negosyo Centers from across the country joining virtually. The initiative supports 14 Negosyo Centers in geographically isolated and di...
On 19 March, ahead of the 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, 79 WTO members participating in the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD) unveiled a package of outcome documents showcasing progress achieved over the past five years and highlighting the group's substantive analytical work across several workstre...
Vienna, 18 March 2026– The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Government of Japan and the Government of Ukraine convened the first Tripartite Industrial Policy Dialogue in Vienna on 16-17 March 2026. The meeting brought together representatives from UNIDO, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Ukrain...
Photo caption: First row (left to right): AIIB President Zou Jiayi meets with Indonesia’s Minister of Finance and AIIB Governor Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, Minister of National Development Planning (Bappenas) Rachmat Pambudy, and Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Kao Kim Hourn.Second row (left to right): President Zou meets...
Pretoria, South Africa, 18 March 2026 - South Africa is advancing the decarbonization of its steel sector through a new initiative developed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Guidehouse Germany. The project, Accelerating South Africa’s Steel Deca...
HighlightA stable and predictable multilateral trading system is essential for global economic growth and sustainable development. World Trade Organization (WTO) rules were designed to ensure predictable market access by preventing sudden trade restrictions and discrimination between trading partners.Yet trade rules have become less predictable. Count...
GDP growth in the G20 area slowed to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to provisional estimates, down from 0.9% in the previous quarter.Corrigendum: In this G20 GDP release published on 16 March 2026, the annual growth figures for Germany and Italy in 2025 were inadvertently reversed in the final paragraph. The sentence originally read: “...
BRUSSELS, March 12, 2026—Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania could raise labor productivity by up to 10 to 15 percent through wider adoption of digital technologies, particularly software and AI-enabled tools, according to the World Bank Group’s latest EU Regular Economic Report released today. With the EU economy expanding at roughly one percent annu...
The OECD unemployment rate remained stable at 5.0% in January 2026, having been at or just below this mark since April 2022.Download in PDF (data tables included)The OECD unemployment rate remained stable at 5.0% in January 2026, having been at or just below this mark since April 2022 (Figure 1).1 Compared with December 2025, the unemployment rate hel...
Appia will shape development of European tokenised financial ecosystemCentral bank money to remain anchor of financial system amid digital transformationAppia roadmap sets out Eurosystem objectives and approach, expected to conclude in 2028The Eurosystem today published the roadmap for Appia, a strategic initiative to shape the development of a Europe...
