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Data and research on bribery and corruption including tax crime, bribery in international business, money laundering and public sector corruption., Uruguay became the 50th adherent to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises on 25 February 2021 in recognition of its impressive progress in pursuing investment policy reforms to improve the country s business climate and encourage the positive contribution investment can make to economic, environmental and social progress. ....
Delegates at a webinar discuss COVID-19 and its impact on older persons. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan 29 2021 (IPS) - Internationally COVID-19 extracted a heavy toll on older people – raising concerns in the Asia Pacific region where more than half of the world’s ageing population live. “Rising inequalities have resulted in the increasing poverty, insufficient access to health and social protection services, which have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Bjorn Andersson, Regional Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia Pacific said. He spoke at a webinar to discuss a recently released policy review undertaken on Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, and Kazakhstan. ....
What is the role of universities in global upskilling? Wide-scale investment in upskilling has the potential to boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by US$6.5 trillion by 2030 and lead to the creation of 5.3 million net new jobs globally by 2030, according to a new report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on 21 January. Upskilling for Shared Prosperity, prepared in collaboration with PwC, is a call to action. It makes the economic case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimising skills gaps and makes sweeping generalisations while presenting country- and region-specific information that indicates that there are great differences between these. ....
Vietnam lauds India’s growth at WTO trade review Monday, 2021-01-11 10:09:45 Font Size:
Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation, and other international organisations. (Photo: VNA) Font Size: | NDO/VNA – Vietnam has highlighted India’s economic achievements despite global instabilities, trade tension and the COVID-19 pandemic at the WTO’s 7th review of India’s trade policies and practices. At the event held on January 6-8, Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations, said the economy kept its average growth at 7.36% for 2015-2020 and 4.2% for 2019-2020. ....
2National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia 3Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 4Precision Medicine, Platform on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, San Francisco, CA, United States 5Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 6Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa 7Facultad de Medicina, Center for Genetics and Genomics, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile 8Institute of Health Management, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China 9KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 10Rare Diseases South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa ....