Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

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Plastics ban

Finding alternatives

Rwanda is taking its ban on single-use plastic bags one big step further, to include most other types of single-use plastic products

Youth unemployment

South Africa’s time bomb

Five proposals for improving labour-market dynamics in South Africa

MEST funding

Successful businesses

Examples of successful tech start-ups whose founders have graduated from the MEST Training Program

Start-ups

“Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not”

MEST Ghana trains young high-tech entrepreneurs and promotes African talents

Blog

Coronavirus hurts Mauritius though no-one is infected so far

Mauritius is a very small country far away from China – but its economy has close ties to that country

Blog

Debt relief could fund climate action

German NGO reports that many developing countries are struggling with worsening debt problems

Security policy

The long road towards a shared EU army

If the EU had its own army, it could also have a military role in the world

Employers

Advocating for the private sector

Liberian business leaders want their government to tackle specific challenges

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Central bankers sounding climate alarm

A conservative global institution – the BIS – demands a double paradigm change

Chronic disease

Silent epidemic

Diabetes is one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide and has an enormous impact on the Global South

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.