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Public banks can finance SDGs more, but 2030 is a rush

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INTERNATIONAL

The UNCTAD report urging public banks to do the “heavy lifting” to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals is ambitious

Investing in people is key to a sustainable recovery

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INT

The pandemic has damaged human and social capital; both are key to economic prospects but under-recorded in GDP accounts

Ports will be central to South Asia’s alliances

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SOUTH ASIA

Powers from within and beyond the region are investing heavily in harbours to bolster trade and expand influence

South-east Asian tourism will need more investment

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Increasing visitor numbers will challenge the region’s countries to boost spending on the tourism sector

US stadium deal shows importance of sports branding

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UNITED STATES

Crypto.com this month paid USD700mn in a 20-year deal for the naming rights to the main basketball arena in Los Angeles

Climate change GDP risk is high regardless of income

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INT

A new study overrules past suggestions that poorer, tropical nations will lose more GDP to the impacts of climate change

East African ports may channel regional tensions

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EAST AFRICA

As states in the region look to increase trade through major port upgrades, political tensions have emerged

Pennsylvania tests Biden’s ability to hold coalition

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UNITED STATES

In Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden needs to hold together a Democratic coalition that is losing blue-collar voters

Lifting Iran sanctions will have a limited effect

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IRAN

A new nuclear deal would raise expectations that US primary and secondary sanctions would be lifted within months

Globalisation evolves as FDI and supply chains shift

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INT

Friend-shoring is outstripping near-shoring in the remaking of supply chains