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            <title>The Catalysts: Unlocking Markets for a Sustainable Economy </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the reckoning on a range of climate, nature and sustainable development goals fast approaches, the finance to deliver them remains out of reach. This report sheds light on a band of actors whose potential is largely untapped: foundations, philanthropies, family offices, impact investors and selected institutional investors.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>Fiscal Policy in Commodity Exporters: A Balancing Act</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of emerging market and developing economies—and 90 percent of low-income countries—depend on commodity exports, leaving their public finances exposed to the boom-bust swings in global commodity prices. When commodity prices surge, spending typically rises in step; when they collapse, public services and investments are often cut, amplifying economic volatility and deepening the slump.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the European Union alone, around 80% of industrial data remains unused, limiting competitiveness, resilience and sustainability – a pattern repeated worldwide. Across company boundaries, this problem deepens: misaligned incentives, uneven digital maturity and growing cybersecurity risk trap value that could come from optimising energy, infrastructure, logistics and resources across the ecosystem.]]></description>
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            <title>Johannesburg Matters: Joburg in Jeopardy</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Johannesburg is the one municipality whose failure would make national success impossible, raising the critical question: if Johannesburg cannot be fixed, can we fix South Africa? Preventing the collapse of Johannesburg must be a national priority. A failing city government affects not only the residents of Johannesburg, but the prospects of the entire country. South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s economy is closely intertwined with nature. By embedding nature in strategy, South African companies will be better able to align their reporting with the requirements of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), thereby futureproofing themselves against nature-related risks and building long-term resilience. In turn, this will ensure their desirability to investors. There is an opportunity to transform how organisations understand their relationship with nature and to create a financial system that recognises the natural world not as an externality, but as a foundational asset on which all economic prosperity depends. ]]></description>
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            <title>Country Focus Report 2026 - Botswana - Mobilizing Botswana’s Development Financing at Scale ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 reviews Botswana’s recent macroeconomic performance and outlook for 2026–2027, highlighting the impact of the downturn in the global diamond market on growth, fiscal balances, and the external position. The contraction in diamond exports reflects both cyclical pressures from weaker global demand and structural challenges linked to Botswana’s heavy reliance on the mining sector.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report is released as African countries advance through the final phase of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while continuing implementation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. This progress is taking place within a global environment characterised by persistent uncertainty, fragmented economic governance, and mounting climate, fiscal, and demographic pressures - all of which shape the pace and trajectory of development outcomes across the continent.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a global environment marked by rising debt vulnerabilities and growing demands for transparency, UNCTAD's Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) Programme continues to help countries build robust sovereign debt management systems and stronger institutional capacity. The DMFAS Annual Report 2025 presents the Programme's achievements during the first year of its new Strategic Plan 2025-2028 and highlights the launch of DMFAS 7, the next-generation debt management system.]]></description>
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