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Extreme heat is the silent killer of climate change: How can cities beat it?

03 August 2022 Mauricio Rodas, Andrew Lombardi and Mateo Ledesma

As fires rage and droughts blight communities around the world, cities have been sweating. The effects of extreme heat are frequently more severe in cities. In the face of rising temperatures, how can cities beat the heat?

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Walking the talk: Can the SDGs help support the COVID-19 recovery in cities and regions?

01 August 2022 Ricardo Rio, Stefano Marta and Lorenz Gross

In times of a global pandemic, war and rising instability, how do we get back on track to good health, peace and resilience? The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a solid route, but we need to step up action.

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Covid + Fintech: finally a game changer for SME financing?

27 July 2022 Matthew Gamser

Just six years ago, more than half of SME retailers’ transactions were paper based – in the form of cash or cheques. That world is long gone. Why? A large part is because Covid-19 gave digital payments a huge boost.

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Ensuring shared prosperity in a changing world

25 July 2022 Elisa Ferreira

As the world and Europe confront successive crises stemming from the climate emergency, post-pandemic recovery, and Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, regions are under renewed pressure. To address them, we need a new place-based approach to policymaking, taking into account the territorial dimension.

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Worn out: COVID-19, Women and the Great Exhaustion

19 July 2022 Rae Cooper and Andrew Paterson

It’s been a tough two years for women. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by job losses, leading many to call it a “she-cession”. But as the pandemic worse on we started to see wider impacts too.

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Travelling light: Labour shortages hampering sustainable recovery for tourism

12 July 2022 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

The tourism sector was one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is facing labour shortages. As the Northern Hemisphere heats up for summer, how can the sector meet the immediate needs of customers and also create good jobs going forward?

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Rural areas to the rescue: how rural renewables are driving the green transition

08 July 2022 Lisanne Raderschall and Andres Sanabria

As global energy prices rise as a result of war in Ukraine, the switch to renewable energy has taken on a new urgency. With ambitious new targets to cut reliance on Russian fossil-fuel imports and increase energy security, what will the transition mean for rural communities? How can they make the most of it?

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The long and the short on labour shortages: How is Canada doing?

05 July 2022 Tony Bonen

In March 2022, the number of job vacancies in Canada surpassed 1 million for the first time on record. This triggered widespread concern about labour shortages and Canada is not alone. As unemployment hits record lows, reports of shortages have become commonplace across OECD countries.

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The secrets of SMEs – and how to protect them

28 June 2022 Sandrine Kergroach and Allison Mages

For many SMEs, knowledge is power. Their business – and competitive edge – depends on their knowledge of markets and their product. Businesses can protect some of their most strategic insights through trade secrets.

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From one crisis to another: what price for SMEs?

27 June 2022 Celine Kauffmann

The stock of outstanding SME loans grew at around 5% in 2020, a record high since 2007. Many weakened businesses were expecting respite as their troubles began to recede, but Russia’s war against Ukraine has sent a tidal wave through OECD countries and regions.

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Where is tech train going and who’s at the wheel?

24 June 2022 Uri Gabai

In Israel in the past two years, the leading companies in the tech sector were SMEs. From early-stage startups to growth companies, Israeli tech SMEs showed record breaking figures since COVID started.

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In the driving seat: How entrepreneurs can move us into the fast lane for the green transition

24 June 2022 Pablo Shah

Countries across the world are now gearing up to face the most profound shared challenge in generations: climate change. The road to net zero will be paved with innovative green technologies – the bread and butter of the green entrepreneur. With the right policy support, these entrepreneurs can drive the green transition.

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Preparing the SME workforce for the fourth industrial revolution

19 September 2018 Iris Arbel

The globalisation of the world’s economy, jointly with the digitisation and automation of traditional production, has become both an opportunity and a challenge for smaller companies and nations – a particularly “human” one. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), current employees and work forces would have to learn to operate …

It is our responsibility to make the future inclusive and sustainable

16 September 2018 Nicolas Hazard

Will all workers be displaced by machines? As history has shown, some jobs are destroyed and others are created. The future lies in closer collaboration between humans and machines. In this context, a new generation of entrepreneurs is ongoing, innovative and tied to strong values. Conscious by our planet’s situation, having grown up in a world punctuated by crisis, they have decided to act and create startups that have social and environmental positive impact.

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