UNIDO publishes the Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2024
UNIDO’s new flagship publication, the 2024 edition of the Industrial Development Report (IDR), entitled “Turning Challenges into Sustainable Solutions: The New Era of Industrial Policy”, shows the transformative potential of modern industrial polic...
FAO releases new discussion paper on “Small and medium enterprises and nutrition: understanding linkages, seizing opportunities”
Multiple actors should be mobilized to ensure that agrifood systems help meet nutrition and sustainability objectives. Among these, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in the supply of food are of crucial importance as they constitute the bulk of ...
AI is here to stay. New report shows what small businesses need to know
ITC (International Trade Center), in collaboration with Trade Finance Global, launched a report on how small businesses can use the rapidly changing technology. The key challenge is to strike a balance between using artificial intelligence to increase pro...
A Global initiative to support SMEs in going digital
Co-organised by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions, and Cities in cooperation with Business at OECD, the OECD Digital for SMEs Global Initiative (D4SME) intended to promote knowledge sharing and learnings on how different types of SMEs ca...
Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa
Africa’s progress in entrepreneurship, digital innovation, and its young population lays a solid foundation for achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union Agenda 2063. To accomplish their goals, the co...
Women, Business and the Law 2024: Breaking Down Barriers to Achieve Gender Equality
Women, Business and the Law 2024 This year’s report, the 10th in the series, finds that women worldwide continue to have fewer legal rights than men and that the weak implementation of gender equality laws exacerbates gender gaps. For the first time...
European Commission launched AI innovation package to support Artificial Intelligence startups and SMEs
On 24 January, the Commission has launched a package of measures to support European startups and SMEs in the development of trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) that respects EU values and rules. This follows the political agreement reached in Decemb...
Promoting International Investment by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are important contributors to economic development, representing a substantial portion of businesses globally. Global markets offer SMEs opportunities for growth, diversification and resilience. Access to internati...
Six global trends that show how to support female entrepreneurs
Although women make up roughly one-half of the world’s population, they only contribute to 37% of global GDP. And so encouraging more women to become entrepreneurs is not just important for making economies more fair, it could actually increase global ...
Financing SMEs for sustainability: results of an OECD survey on financial institution strategies and approaches
Finance is a critical catalyst for the netzero transition of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which account for about 40% of the aggregate GHG emissions of the business sector (OECD, 2023[1]). It enables SMEs to invest in adopting greener busine...
