Recommendations
Global Trade Update (September 2025): Trade policy uncertainty looms over global markets
3rd September 2025 Trade policy uncertainty has become a major source of global instability. Sudden shifts in tariffs, subsidies or restrictions fuel volatility.... →
Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet
3rd September 2025 “Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet” explores how the foundational natural endowments of land, air, and water—long taken for... →
Analysis of the IEC’s Annual Political Party Funding Report for FY2023/2024
2nd September 2025 On 30 April 2025, the Electoral Commission (IEC) published its Annual Political Party Funding Report (the Report), which covers the reporting... →
Chief People Officers Outlook – September 2025
2nd September 2025 How will the labour market shift in the year ahead? In mid-2025, 42% of chief people officers forecast no change in current uncertain labour market... →
Securing Minerals for the Energy Transition: Finance for Southern Africa
2nd September 2025 Critical minerals are essential to the energy transition, powering electric vehicles, renewable energy systems and energy storage technologies.... →
Electrification with renewables: Enhancing healthcare delivery in Mali
2nd September 2025 Lack of reliable energy access in many parts of the world remains a major obstacle to healthcare delivery, with nearly one billion people relying... →
Humanitarian evacuations: practice, guidance, research gaps and lessons
2nd September 2025 This briefing note explores recent practice on humanitarian evacuations and learnings from such practice, and examines current guidance and gaps in... →
Breaking down barriers for women digital entrepreneurs: Insights from Africa
28th August 2025 The digital economy is reshaping global trade and business, presenting new opportunities for inclusive growth and sustainable development. However,... →
UNCTAD Annual Report 2024
28th August 2025 2024 marked UN Trade and Development’s 60th anniversary. Six decades ago, our founders envisioned an institution that would ensure the fruits of... →
Migration Control Abuses and EU Externalization in Mauritania
28th August 2025 Racial and ethnic profiling, extortion, mass arrests, detention for days or weeks with little to no food, collective expulsions, beatings and... →
