SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

Kori Udovicki highlights the insufficiency of mechanisms to channel capital and know-how to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Glen Cove NY, 17-19 June Global Economic Outlook, June

Carbon pricing is a vital policy tool to address the unfolding climate crisis Amid rising global temperatures, drought forces Australia to import wheat for the first time in a decade Debt-for-climate swaps are an innovative?development financing instrument

ODA flows must increase to support SDG-related investment Regional integration in Africa and Asia is crucial for sustainable development China?s direct investment in Latin America slows

Trade tensions and policy uncertainty are damaging global growth prospects Several countries continue to experience setbacks in their fight against poverty Carbon pricing a key element in combating climate change

Global growth outlook has weakened, amid unresolved trade tensions and elevated international policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019. Across both developed and developing countries, growth projections for 2019 have been downgraded.?

Genetic technologies?the ability to manipulate and transform the properties of cells, seeds, microbes, insects, plants, animals and even humans?are pushing the frontiers of science and offers us new hope for disease control and cure. Genetic technologies are changing the way we produce food, improving crop yield and preventing catastrophic losses from droughts, floods and pests.

Rolph van der Hoeven discusses inequality and how incomes are generated.

Experience has shown that it is not possible to empower people and to reduce household income inequality without addressing how incomes are generated in the production process and how this affects the so-called factor income inequality (the distribution of national income between rents from land, capital income and labour income).