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COVID-19 crisis complicates nations’ climate financing

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INT

Leaders will consider how to fund and reduce the costs of climate change with COVID-19 crisis costs still looming large

Stimulating skills is key to emerging markets growth

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INT

Human capital will become as key to low-to-mid-income countries as it is for high-income ones

Ethiopia’s local conflicts will pose governance risks

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ETHIOPIA

As attention focuses on developments at the national level, sub-national conflicts are boiling over

Western use of targeted sanctions is intensifying

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INTERNATIONAL

Sanctions are an important tool of coercive foreign policy, especially for Western policymakers

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

Demographic shifts still impacting political balance

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UNITED STATES

New data from the 2020 census will be used to reapportion seats in the US House of Representatives between states

The semiconductor demand/supply imbalance will persist

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INT

Semiconductor supply is failing to keep pace with surging demand for use in electronic devices, telecoms and automobiles

Debt strains will rise in Middle East and North Africa

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MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA

External debt indicators have worsened in past decade in some Middle Eastern and North African countries