BANGKOK, 18 November 2025 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), launched the ASEAN Roadmap for the Prevention of Child Labour Including the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2035. Recognised by the ASEAN Leaders at the 47th ASEAN Summit last month...
DOWNLOAD PICTUREThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Paulson Institute and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) jointly launched Unlocking Private Finance for Nature as Infrastructure: A Public-Private Partnership, a report that sets out in practical terms how countries and financial institutions can integra...
2025 CTI Annual Report to MinistersPublished DateNovember 2025Type of PublicationReportsPublication UnderCommittee on Trade and Investment (CTI)Accessed9Pages53Download publicationDownloadDescriptionThe 2025 CTI Annual Report to Ministers highlights the CTI and sub-fora's progress and achievements, including in support of Republic of Korea’s theme Bui...
DOWNLOAD PICTUREStrengthening health systems and expanding immunization programs deliver very high climate-adaptation benefits.For the most climate-sensitive diseases, such as cholera or malaria, over a third of funding contributes directly towards building climate resilience. More than a third of the funding going into strengthening health infrastructure,...
Belém, Brazil, 14 November 2025 – Leaders gathered today in Belém at COP30 to launch the Belém Declaration on Global Green Industrialization. The Belém Declaration is a shared framework for coordination and action to accelerate industrial transformation while expanding opportunities for sustainable growth and innovation across all regions. Its go...
The IMF Executive Board approved a two-step reversion of the temporarily higher cumulative access limits (CALs) under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Trust (PRGT) to pre-pandemic levels.This phase-out provides predictability for the normalization of RCF access limits while retaining adequate borrowing space for ...
Share moreFrom left to right: Jorge Familiar, Vice President & Treasurer, World Bank, and Pablo Saavedra, World Bank Vice President for the Prosperity vertical at the report’s launch event in Washington, DC.World Bank GroupWashington, DC, November 13, 2025 – A new World Bank report offers the most comprehensive view yet of global reserve managem...
In September 2025, the unemployment rate remained stable, compared to August 2025, in 24 of the 32 OECD countries with available data. Four OECD countries saw an increase, and four others experienced a decline (Table 1). Korea, Japan, Mexico, Czechia and Israel registered unemployment rates at or below 3.0%, with Korea’s unemployment rate marking a record...
Trade covered by tariffs in G20 economies increased about four times as much from mid-October 2024 to mid-October 2025 compared to the prior reporting period, marking the largest increase in the history of WTO trade monitoring. At the same time, economies made trade easier by twice as much in value terms over this period, according to the WTO's latest ...
New York, 12 November 2025 – A new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) shows that Afghanistan’s “areas of return” are under mounting pressure, with communities struggling to absorb millions of people returning amid economic contraction, climate shocks and recent earthquakes. The report also reminds of the criti...
