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UN Report: Clock Ticking to Dodge Global Recession Worse Than ‘08

October 04, 2022
united nations, central banks, trade council, global recession
Global Tourism Faces Multi-Trillion-Dollar Hit From COVID-19
Economy // July 01, 2020

The tourism sector in the United States will take the biggest hit of any country in the world from COVID-19, with China a distant second, a new United Nations study finds. A four-month lockdown on international and much domestic tourism as well could cost the...

Jack Ma Backs eCommerce As Means For Global Development
eCommerce // April 26, 2017

Taking some time away from constructing a global eCommerce empire, Jack Ma, executive chairman of Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba, recently aligned himself with other philanthropic executives and a UN initiative by saying that the internet should be available to the entire world. The statement and...

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UN Report: Clock Ticking to Dodge Global Recession Worse Than ‘08

October 04, 2022
Monetary policies instituted to offset inflation in developed nations like the U.S. and the U.K. are negatively affecting emerging markets, causing the United Nations and other transnational institutions to sound the alarm that the world could be on the brink of a global recession.  There’s still time to pull the world back from the edge […]

Global Tourism Faces Multi-Trillion-Dollar Hit From COVID-19

July 01, 2020
The tourism sector in the United States will take the biggest hit of any country in the world from COVID-19, with China a distant second, a new United Nations study...

Jack Ma Backs eCommerce As Means For Global Development

April 26, 2017
Taking some time away from constructing a global eCommerce empire, Jack Ma, executive chairman of Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba, recently aligned himself with other philanthropic executives and a UN initiative...