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Circular practices, such as extending a product’s useful life or recycling waste into products, can yield environmental as well as economic benefits.
Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.
Singapore’s biophilic public hospital was built by rehabilitating and incorporating a nearby stormwater collection pond to create a waterfront healing space popular with patients and nearby residents alike.
Countries need to build capacity and develop financial solutions for different climate risks, including those that can better address slow-onset events.
Demographic changes, such as population aging in East Asia, will affect productivity and competitiveness and shape how innovation is created.
AI is disrupting the social sector, enhancing the way basic services are delivered to the public.
Azerbaijan has leveraged its vast energy resources to elevate the country to upper middle-income status.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
A cyber-attack could mean global economic losses of between $121 billion and $234 billion and insurance losses of between $27 billion and $40 billion.
The SARS outbreak in 2003 provides insights on how we can mitigate the health and economic impact of COVID-19.