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Inclusion and privacy policies may lag cashless growth

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Cashless spending is surging, giving customers and traders more flexibility and reducing ‘organisational’ costs

Regional gender gaps face policy conflict

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UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have made gender equality a top priority, but progress is slow and uneven

Global gap will widen between aid needed and funded

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Aid budgets are being cut and priorities are shifting from humanitarian aid when it is needed more than ever

Gender friendly business and law policies need impetus

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Gender equality is a Sustainable Development Goal, but most countries lag regardless of income and political stability

Official aid is under pressure; private aid is growing

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Large US budget cuts risk squeezing public foreign aid, but more private co-funding may fill some of the gap

Policy on ‘globesity’ epidemic must shed urban bias

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Approaches to tackling the rise in overweight and obese populations have tended to ignore alarming rural trends

Rising inequalities will increase climate change costs

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Carbon emissions inequality between and within nations fuels internal and multilateral debates about climate funding

Recession risks wider internet infrastructure gap

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Development actors want governments to make the internet more affordable, accessible and reliable; progress is uneven

Global humanitarian financing faces growing crisis

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Amid rapidly expanding levels of need, humanitarian financing is not keeping pace

The scope to increase global productivity is immense

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Global growth is picking up, but the lack of structural reform from 2007-17 is holding back countries across the world