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Share KE, UNDP to provide SMEs a digital boost Tue, 11 May 2021 Khmer Enterprise (KE) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have formed a strategic partnership to give a boost to the operational development of the Kingdom's e-commerce sector and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), according to a May 11 joint press release. This new partnership between KE – a start-up ecosystem support arm under the Ministry of Economy and Finance – and the UNDP aims to strengthen and ensure the sustainable development of SMEs and e-commerce in the Kingdom, it said. This will provide a springboard ...

Tourism, apparel and sustainable development strategies are covered in new series of policy briefs from the Enhanced Integrated Framework International trade can be a powerful tool for least developed countries (LDCs) to reduce poverty and spur economic growth. But it is not a blanket solution. Individual country contexts, government planning and prioritizing, the private sector situation and other particularities – not to mention consumer preferences and global trends – intermingle in spurring (or not) trade’s development. Being able to take advantage of the opportunities available, an...

Japan supports EIF to help poorest countries recover from COVID 19, expand trade capacity Japan has contributed over USD 81,000 (approximately CHF 72,000) to the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) in 2021 to help least-developed countries (LDCs) use trade to combat the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will help 46 least-developed countries (LDCs) across Africa, Asia and the Pacific tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by enhancing their capacity to trade. LDCs often rely on exporting one particular commodity or natural resource, making it more complicated ...

The 200 or so taro and cassava farmers in the Solomon Islands had likely not encountered this sort of workshop before. Neither, for that matter, have most people.

Guinea trying out south-south cooperation venture with Tunisia Trade in Guinea today centres mostly around the export of gold and bauxite, which is used to create aluminum. The country has the world’s largest deposits of the red rock, and aluminum prices are increasing. But, approximately 85% of Guinea’s population are subsistence agriculturalists, and the country is one of the poorest in the world. In an effort to expand the country’s income potential in agriculture, a new partnership has formed under a south-south cooperation umbrella, with Tunisia offering learnings from its own boos...