2023 Africa sustainable development report
Africa’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the aspirations, goals, and targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 has been uneven, with significant differences among sub regions,
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Is an end to child marriage within reach? latest trends and future prospects 2023 update
Despite a steady decline in child marriage in the last decade, multiple crises including conflict, climate shocks, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19 are threatening to reverse hard-earned gains, according
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Strengthening Africa’s role in the battery and electric vehicle value chain
As the world reboots its economies from the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, it is important to adopt an economic development model that lessens environmental, climate and disaster risks and one where social
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Digital progress and trends report 2023
Digitalization is the transformational opportunity of our time. The digital sector has become a powerhouse of innovation, economic growth, and job creation. Value added in the IT services sector grew at
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COVID-19 and global food security: two years later
Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years
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Leaving no one behind: impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This groundbreaking research considers impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using futures modeling in three potential recovery scenarios, capturing the multidimensional effects
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South and Southwest Asia transport outlook
This report provides scenarios for future transport demand and CO2 emissions in South and Southwest Asia up to 2050 to help decision-makers chart pathways to sustainable, resilient transport. The scenarios
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Covid-19 one year later: public perceptions about pandemics and their links to nature
People in the US, China, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar strongly support government action to prevent future pandemics. This survey comes as a larger, more in-depth follow-up to one conducted at the beginning
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Covid-19 one year later: public perceptions about pandemics and their links to nature
People in the US, China, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar strongly support government action to prevent future pandemics. This survey comes as a larger, more in-depth follow-up to one conducted at the beginning
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Considerations for quarantine of contacts of COVID-19 cases
<p>This document is an update of interim guidance entitled Considerations for quarantine of individuals in the context of containment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), published on 19 March 2020. This
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Tracking Covid-19: lessons for / from India
It is for the first time in recent history that almost the entire world is facing a shared threat - the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite specific contexts and capabilities of countries and communities, there
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COVID-19: make it the last pandemic
COVID-19 vaccine distribution has been largely concentrated in higher income countries, despite dire need in conflict-affected areas as more transmissible COVID-19 variants drive up cases and intensify
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The inequality crisis in East Africa: fighting austerity and the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions into poverty in East Africa, and worsened inequality. The economic crisis continues, due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that only 4% of
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Data synthesis: COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in Sub-Saharan Africa- social and behavioural science data, March 2020-April 2021
Safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 are seen as a critical path to ending the pandemic. This synthesis brings together data related to public perceptions about COVID-19 vaccines collected between
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Order of the Uttarakhand High Court regarding the state of prisoners in jails amid COVID-19, Uttarakhand, 03/05/2021
<p>Order of the Uttarakhand High Court dated 03/05/2021 regarding COVID-19 situation in Uttarakhand.</p> <p>The High Court directed the Chief Standing Counsel for Uttarakhand to submit a report on the:</p><a
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Pandemic resilient cities
This book is a collaborative effort born under the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to address the uncertain future of cities. After an online series of the same name, where Emergency Architecture & Human
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Embracing a one health framework to fight antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the ability of microbes to resist antimicrobials – remains an alarming global health threat. This is despite the efforts made by OECD and EU/EEA countries to curtail it.
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The impact of Covid-19 on livelihoods and food security
Studies of livelihoods and food systems since the start of the global pandemic in 2020 have shown a consistent pattern: the primary risks to food and livelihood security are at the household level. Covid-19
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Contextualizing transformation of healthcare sector in Asia-Pacific in the post-COVID-19 era
The paper lays out a broad framework to reimagine healthcare systems using the digital technologies as one of the core pillars in the Asia-pacific countries. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed
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World economic outlook 2022: countering the cost-of-living crisis
Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades. The cost-of-living crisis, tightening financial conditions