WTO: Facilitator's "smaller configurations" spark concerns over S&DT (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Geneva, 16 Oct (D. Ravi Kanth) --The facilitator overseeing the World Trade Organization (WTO) reform track on development has created silos of "smaller configurations" in scheduling a meeting for 16 October.

UN: Social inclusion essential in rapidly transforming world, says report (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
While simultaneous economic, digital and energy transformations can offer major opportunities to raise productivity, expand access to services and accelerate sustainable development, they can also deepen existing inequalities when people lack the capabilities, opportunities, infrastructure, protection or voice needed to adapt, making the cost of exclusion increasingly high.

UN: A "New Economics of Social Inclusion" for a changing world (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Persistent exclusions, emerging challenges and the mounting costs of leaving people behind call for a "New Economics of Social Inclusion (NESI)", according to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).