SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

Credit ratings play an important role providing information on sovereign borrowers. But financial markets, including credit ratings, often over-emphasize short-term economic concerns, and underweight longer-term issues, including environmental and social risks as well as investment in resilience and sustainability.

Forthcoming changes in US monetary policy will have significant impacts on countries? net international investment positions, likely pushing some least developed countries to greater indebtedness.

2022 Monitoring Reports for Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR, Nepal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

World population continues to grow and is expected to peak at a level of almost 11 billion around the year 2100. Most of this growth will take place in low-income and lower middle-income countries.

Central banks have relied heavily on unconventional monetary policy tools, especially large-scale asset purchases, to respond to the pandemic. These programmes have helped to stabilize financial markets and kickstart economic recovery. But the central bank asset purchases have also contributed to an underpricing of risk and sharp increases in asset prices.

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Sports plays an important role as part of the solution.

The world has emerged from the depths of a paralyzing economic crisis, but recovery remains fragile amid the lingering pandemic, persistent labour market challenges, ongoing supply-chain disruptions and rising inflation.

Countries are urged to implement the UN Legal Identity Agenda model as matter of priority to establish the necessary interoperability between various government?s components for effective monitoring and assessing impacts of policy decisions.

Documenting more evidence around post-COVID 19 transport measures can provide useful references in revamping transport systems.