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<p><span>1. Multiple compounding crises have severely darkened the global economic outlook and development prospects. Global growth is slowing, and poverty, hunger, water scarcity, cost of living pressures and food and energy insecurity have increased alarmingly, deepening the existing challenges in the global economy as well as exacerbating fragilities in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCS). Persistently high inflation and spikes in food and energy prices, exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine, have disproportionately harmed vulnerable households and the poor. Downside ris...

Geneva: The Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Consumer Protection Authority, took part on Monday in the 6th session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer...

Ministers, high-level government representatives, experts, civil society and private sector representatives will next week discuss how to better protect consumers amid the global cost-of-living crisis during meetings organized by UNCTAD.

The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 18 July, in Room XVII of the Palais des Nations. Remote participation will also be available. In line with the agreed conclusions adopted by the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy at its fifth session the deliberations at the sixth session will focus on the following topics:

The world was promised a neutral international monetary system secured by a stable reserve currency issued by a global hegemon. But, with the US dollar being weaponized through sanctions, it has become all too clear that the current system is far from neutral.