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Rwanda has achieved impressive growth and poverty reduction over the past two decades. e share of the population below the national poverty line fell by more than 20 percentage points from 2001 to 2017, while life expectancy, access to health care, and educational attainment have improved sharply. However, while poverty continued to fall until the eve of the pandemic, the amount of poverty reduction generated by each percentage point increase in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita fell, and the pandemic and a series of external shocks have likely increased poverty rates

The first action in the G-20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap proposes six high-level principles for the development and global coordination of approaches to align investments with sustainability goals. ¡°Alignment approaches¡± are national and international frameworks for the financial sector that aim to monitor global sustainable finance flows and ensure that they are contributing to the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and other international sustainable finance objectives.

The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024

While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be degraded and overexploited, calling the sustainability of that growth into question. Is today¡¯s growth coming at the expense of the wellbeing of the next generation?

Circular Economy as an Opportunity for Central Asia

The goals of a circular economy are to reduce waste, conserve resources, and minimize environmental impact by keeping products and materials in use for as long as possible. How can this concept help Central Asia achieve sustainable growth?

Bangladesh has made important progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, but much of this progress has come at the cost of high carbon intensity and resource inefficiency, high levels of pollution, reduced climate resilience, and environmental degradation.

The 2023 Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) aims to support the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in informing policies and investments for improving environmental health and pollution management, a critical step towards a green growth pathway.

Protecting the Amazon rainforest is crucial for maintaining its role as ¡°the lungs of the world.¡± The rainforest stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, serves as a hotspot of biodiversity, and stabilizes regional temperatures.

This report presents an analysis ¨C conducted between October 2021 and April 2022 - of ESG disclosure practices among leading companies listed on the Thai Stock Exchange using a checklist of general reporting indicators and of primary specific ESG indicators that Thai companies would be anticipated to disclose on.

To Grow Strong, Grow Green

ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Group¡¯s mission is to end poverty on a livable planet. With more than 50 percent of global GDP - $44 trillion in economic resources ¨C dependent on nature, it is critical to understand the economic impact of biodiversity to achieve this mission. How do we do this?