SDGs

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is supporting women's economic empowerment in the world's 47 Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
UNCDF

Fair Finance: The women entrepreneurs lifting communities out of poverty

31 January 2021
Global

Helping women start and grow businesses in the world’s poorest countries is a path to lifting them and their families out of poverty, the high-profile businesswoman, and new UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Goodwill Ambassador Sonia Gardner, has told UN News, in the second of our two part series this weekend, on the role the financial sector can play in reducing inequality.

A family from the Hmong ethnic minority in Vietnam.
© UNICEF/Truong Viet Hung

Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

30 January 2021
Global

Reducing inequality is one of the UN’s flagship goals, but the gulf between rich and poor worldwide, remains persistently high. In the first of a special two-part series on the financial sector this weekend, Hiro Mizuno, the newly-appointed UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments, explains how the industry can help to create a fairer, more equitable world.

Shopping during the coronavirus pandemic: greater population growth in regions such as Latin America, will require more productive and sustainable agriculture.
World Bank/Paul Salazar

World Bank expects global economy to expand by 4% in 2021

5 January 2021

The World Bank Group on Tuesday issued a guarded growth forecast for the global economy this year, saying that a four per cent overall expansion was likely, although the recovery will likely be a “subdued” one.

Men install solar panels for a hospital in Yemen.
UNDP Yemen

‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

2 January 2021
Global

In a bid of optimism for the new year, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) expressed confidence that clean energy would grow in 2021.