WASHINGTON, November 24, 2025—Countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) should urgently push to make more efficient use of existing economic assets and invest in the capabilities of its firms and people to unlock faster growth, according to a new World Bank report released today.The report, TIDES of Change: Igniting Productivity Growth in Europe and...
Riyadh, 23 November 2025 – The 21st session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), together with the Global Industry Summit 2025, officially opened today at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh. The General Conference, UNIDO’s supreme policymaking body, brings together all 173 Member St...
Johannesburg, South Africa: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivered the following remarks at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa:“I would like to thank President Cyril Ramphosa and the Government of South Africa for hosting this week’s G20 Leaders’ Summit, and Minister Godongwana and Governor ...
Download in PDF (data tables included)Merchandise trade continued to expand during Q3 2025 in most G20 economies for whic data are available, with both exports and imports recording moderate growth compared to Q2 2025. Merchandise trade in the European Union strengthened, with exports up by 3.2% and imports by 2.9%, marking the third consecutive quarterly ...
Since 2016, NDB has financed USD 972.8 million in South Africa’s energy sector — adding approximately 1,600 MW of capacity, 7,500 GWh of annual supply and cutting 7.2 million tonnes of CO₂ each year.Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 November 2025: The New Development Bank’s energy sector investments in South Africa have provided considerable sup...
Download in PDF (data tables included)Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth showed a mixed picture across the 25 OECD countries for which data was available in the third quarter of 2025: 12 countries recorded higher growth rates compared with Q2 2025, GDP was unchanged in 3 countries, while 5 recorded lower growth compared with Q2 2025 and 5 recorded a GDP c...
Sustainability standards guide businesses in good environmental and social practices. They’re also good for business, as more consumers and governments expect ethical trade.That’s why ITC has created the world’s largest repository of data on sustainability standards.Meeting those standards changes lives, like for a young cocoa farmer in rural Colombia, ...
20 November 2025, videoconference – The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institution Forum (SEANF) held their 5th Interface Meeting on 20 November 2025. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Edmund Bon Tai Soon, AICHR Chair and Representative of Malaysia to AICHR. It was attended b...
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) collectively channel close to USD 200 billion annually into sovereign and non-sovereign operations. This note presents key findings of a comparative analysis of the procurement policy frameworks of ten Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), as of July 2025. It benchmarks the frameworks of the African Development Bank, ...
Prepared by Marianna Caccavaio, Carlo Cascini, Cyril Couaillier, Giorgia De Nora, Mara Pirovano and Frances ShawPublished as part of the Macroprudential Bulletin 32, November 2025.Early activation of the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB), including adoption of a targeted “positive neutral” rate (PNR), has become an increasingly common practice w...
