Tag: Economy

The one-year project with US$2.2 million funding from Japan aims to help improve the safety and health of workers in MSMEs

Italy said the G20 would return to the issue of vaccine funding for poor countries ahead of a Rome summit in October

Tourism ground to a halt last year when the government imposed tight entry requirements to keep out COVID-19

Drivers of Bangkok's distinctive tuk tuks have been among the hardest-hit by the pandemic's devastation of Thailand's all-important tourism industry

Pope Francis warned against an “elitist dynamic” that discards others and sacrifices “those who have been left behind"

The World Bank's forecast was cut from its previous projection of 5.5% and compares with the Philippine's 2021 growth target of 6.0%-7.0%

Pope Francis urged the faithful to pray "to prevent the poor from paying the consequences" of "financial speculation"

Developing Asia, which groups 45 countries in the Asia-Pacific, is forecast to grow 7.3% in 2021, the ADB said

The pope repeated his call for the cancelation of debts of poor countries that he first made in his Easter “Urbi et Orbi” address last year

The Global Risks Report said many young people are now entering the workforce in “an employment ice age”