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            <description><![CDATA[The Strait of Hormuz disruptions are no exception.  Large companies can spread risk across suppliers, markets and financing sources. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) typically cannot.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sustainable finance policymaking continued to expand in 2025, even as regulatory approaches diverged across major economies. Across 35 economies representing 93% of global GDP, 143 new sustainable finance policies were adopted in 2025, up from 99 in 2024. That brought the total tracked in UNCTAD's database to 804 policies.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Services are becoming more important across the economy, and digitalisation is accelerating this process of servicification. This raises policy questions about how services trade and policy affect development outcomes, including productivity and employment.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Europe holds a rare combination of strengths: industrial know-how built over centuries, a consumer market of 450-million people, abundant household savings, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent base that outpaces many competitors and a stable, transparent and predictable institutional environment. At a moment when foundational infrastructure networks, from renewable energy to AI systems, need rapid buildout, the EU offers access to all these at once.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lebanon’s recurring waste crises are not isolated environmental failures; they are manifestations of a structurally fragile economic model. The country remains locked in a predominantly linear system characterised by import dependence, weak enforcement, disposal-oriented infrastructure, and the externalisation of environmental and social costs. Over the past decade, numerous circular economy initiatives have emerged through donor-supported programs, circularity reports, municipal experiments, ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 4 November, for the first time since 1994, the ballot paper will carry the name of the South African Communist Party. That sentence should be read slowly.]]></description>
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