agriculture

The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 reviews the advances in frontier technologies – automation, robotics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence – and analyses their economic, social and environmental impact. These technologies possess immense potential for fostering growth, prosperity and environmental sustainability and accelerating the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

On 24 September Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Lindiwe Sibanda participates in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event ‘Data to end hunger’ as part of a group of storytellers from ‘The Moth Global Community Program’ who wil ...

For some least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh and Nepal, moving onto a path of long-term prosperity requires structural transformation that expands production via manufacturing, services and higher-productivity agriculture. The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP), using a series of case studies, identified some possible lessons from building productive capacity in countries that are about to graduate or have recently graduated from the LDC category.

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Global growth projected to strengthen to 2.7 per cent in 2017 and 2.9 per cent in 2018 High food price inflation in several countries raises concerns over worsening food insecurity Brazil returns to positive growth in the first quarter