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Report provides detailed market analysis for major commodity groups, including energy, metals, agriculture, precious metals, and fertilizers. Price forecasts for 46 commodities are presented together with historical price data.

This document has been written and produced by the Scenarios team at Shell. It is a summary of its Energy Security Scenarios publication, which explores the possible evolution of the world's energy system to the end of the century.

Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2025: Engaging communities to close the evidence gap, February 2025

Our technology trends explore what happens when AI acts autonomously at the center of enterprise technology

In this report, the authors offer guidance to students, faculty, and practicing professionals in the architectural field on how to improve the relationship between education and practice, including the pathways to education and the workforce.Auto_Footnote_Creator Completed Sucessfully WebLinks G10.0

The authors assess the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to generate or exacerbate chemical and biological threats and how such misuse of AI could be mitigated or prevented.

Rising geopolitical tensions, punctuated by successive crises, have strained the ties that connect countries around the world. In this turbulent environment, reliable measures of the state and trajectory of globalization are essential for business and public policy decision-making. This latest edition of the DHL Global Connectedness Index draws on more than 4 million data points to provide the most comprehensive available portrait of international flows of trade, capital, information, and people.

ASYCUDA Report 2024 - Innovation for a Changing World

Global Innovation Index 2024. Executive Summary. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2024

The authors describe how to secure the weights of frontier artificial intelligence and machine learning models (that is, models that match or exceed the capabilities of the most advanced models at the time of their development).

Artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance productivity and performance in service industries, as recent use cases demonstrate. To harness its benefits, service companies must ensure that AI is complementing the way their employees work, not disrupting it. Several challenges exist, including ensuring quality results, navigating regulations, and implementing AI at scale. In this Viewpoint, we share steps CxOs can take now to drive innovation and competitiveness through human-AI interaction.

Switching to greener technologies in building construction and operation combined with more climate-friendly capital markets could yield significant progress on meeting emissions targets while creating investment opportunities in emerging markets, according to a major report from IFC.

An overview of key global and Australian fintech investment trends and highlights in the first half of 2023.

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《美联储信息优势及其对货币政策目标的影响》阐述了美联邦储备组织制度安排以及相关的制度安排对美联储收集和运用信息有效性的重要作用；论证了美联储获得信息优势的制度基础；模型化分析了美联储信息优势如何影响其货币政策目标的问题；证明了在信息优势影响下的美联储货币政策目标的特征。

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program provides nearly $5 billion over 5 years to help states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (hereafter referred to as “states”) create a network of fast EV charging stations along designated Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs), with emphasis along the Interstate Highway System. The first-year deployment plans were submitted to and reviewed by the Joint Office and FHWA and certified by FHWA in September 2022. To support the rollout of the NEVI Formula Program, the Joint Office has been providing technical assistance to the states since February 2022 and has developed DriveElectric.gov to serve as the front door for federal efforts to build out a national charging network. This report summarizes the key activities of the Joint Office in relation to the NEVI program and provides an individual and collective overview of the first-year deployment plans. The Joint Office will utilize the summary of these plans to inform program improvement and future technical assistance activities to support the states as they begin to implement their EV charging infrastructure.

An assessment of how industry attitudes to drones have changed over the past three years and the implications for actions to grow the UK drone economy

These are pivotal times for industrial manufacturing. Manufacturers must navigate an unfamiliar environment shaped by advances in disruptive technology, economic turmoil, shifting customer expectations, uncertain labor and materials supply markets, and the world’s emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic. In our view, this sector will continue to experience increasing disruption in the near future.

Mid-term review of the Debt Management and Financial Analysis (DMFAS) Programme Strategic Plan 2020-2023

Global research: As observability becomes essential, leaders extend multicloud visibility and dramatically improve digital experiences

Be determined, not deterred. Despite the headwinds of global economic uncertainty, digital transformation leaders that are committed to their innovation priorities continue to realize value at pace.

There is no question that electric vehicles (EVs), which are key for addressing climate change impacts from the transportation sector, are quickly gaining popularity and availability. With limits and other challenges related to the supply of critical battery minerals, maximizing the use of EV batteries and ensuring recovery of battery minerals is imperative. Therefore, proper end-of-life-cycle management (reuse and recycling) of these batteries must be part of the EV ecosystem from the perspective of both the supply chain and environmental footprint. Second use of batteries for energy storage systems extends the initial life of these resources and provides a buffer until economical material recovery facilities are in place. Although there are multiple pathways to recycling and recovery of materials, new recovery technologies are moving toward commercially available hydrometallurgy and promising direct recycling, which analysis has shown has the lowest overall carbon footprint. Strategically locating these plants close to battery collection further reduces transportation and thus recycling and recovering costs. Proper life cycle management could alleviate future lithium-ion battery materials supply chains for EVs. Governments and other stakeholders around the world have started initiatives and proposed regulations to address the challenges associated with life cycle management of EV lithium batteries. Finally, as manufacturers are increasingly faced with the likelihood of such extensive regulatory requirements, attention should be given to new designs, sales, and service models that can reduce life cycle management costs.

The UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index puts the housing market into long-term perspective and is designed to track the risk of property price bubbles in global cities

This policy paper takes stock of ongoing hydrogen policy developments in Europe, placing particular attention on how the European Union (EU) can most effectively mobilize its domestic hydrogen potential. While the paper acknowledges that hydrogen imports from countries outside the EU are likely to play a significant role, it departs from the premise that the large-scale mobilization of cost-competitive domestic resources is an essential element for ensuring the EU’s energy security and industrial leadership in the sector.It begins with an overview of future renewable energy demand in Europe within the context of decarbonization, on the one hand, and potentials for renewable hydrogen production and their distribution across the EU, on the other. It then contrasts this with hydrogen-related targets and announced investments in the Member States. Against this background, the paper provides a review of key EU-level policies, focusing on the promotion of hydrogen production and use. Questions related to infrastructure for storage and transport of hydrogen are beyond the scope of the paper and are not considered. Building on the policy review, the final section proposes five recommendations for further development of EU hydrogen policy and funding schemes.

Using the World Bank Global Findex Database for 91 countries in 2014, 2017, and 2021, we examine whether fintech levels influence bank performance and whether fintech’s interaction with GDP per capita causes differential effects on bank performance globally. Since fintech levels were already very high for rich countries when the World Bank started providing fintech development statistics in 2014, we estimate AbFintech by regressing fintech levels on GDP per capita by year. AbFintech is the difference between the fintech level and its fitted values. Then, using multiple regression analyses, we investigate the impact of AbFintech on bank performance worldwide, focusing on the differential effects of AbFintech and GDP levels on bank performance. We find AbFintech significantly increases bank performance, primarily in less developed countries. Specifically, AbFintech increases banks’ ROA in the least developed countries and net interest margin in 75th percentile countries. Also, AbFintech decreases the cost-to-income ratio in 75th percentile countries, while it increases the ratio in the most developed countries. The resulting policy implication is that banks in less developed countries benefit most from investing in fintech innovation since they can provide a broader customer base, including formerly unbanked or underbanked customers, with more convenient services at lower costs.

WPIC Press Release for the launch of Platinum Quarterly Q2 2023

Bhutan’s schools maintained their relatively strong performance during the pandemic as access to remote learning, the opening of boarding facilities, and moves to prioritize education for secondary school pupils prevented performance gaps widening.

Steady, strong growth in platinum chemical demand highlights the benefits of platinum’s diversity of end uses

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We conclude that the Industrial Metaverse is best defined as a “connected whole-system digital twin with functionalities to interact with the real system in its environment, allowing decision makers to better understand the past and forecast the future.” As such, the Industrial Metaverse is a further evolution of discrete digital twin technologies that already exist today (e.g., for factories or plants) but progressively extended to ultimately represent an end-to-end, real-world industrial system, including external elements outside the company and the environment within which it operates. The Industrial Metaverse thus provides a transformative tool to elevate the use of digital simulation technology to the level of strategic decision-making. This is important for dealing with the increasing complexity and accelerated pace of development company leaders face and is especially valuable for developing effective sustainable growth strategies.

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Towards better trade opportunities for female farmers in Myanmar: A guidebook to improve agricultural practices, food safety, and access to credit

A collaborative report from the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) on Lessons Learned for Rapid Decarbonization of Power Sectors was delivered to energy ministers and presented at CEM13 in the United States in September 2022. In light of these lessons learned and discussed at CEM13, several countries signaled intent to develop Action Plans for power sector decarbonization that will be presented at CEM14 in India. These action plans complement but are differentiated from other international power sector initiatives such as the Breakthrough Agenda whose broad purpose is to raise collective ambition and the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium whose goals are to convene power system operators to accelerate research innovations and foster peer learning. These action plans, supported by the 21st Century Power Partnership (21CPP) and other CEM workstreams via direct technical assistance and capacity building, are instead intended to focus on implementation actions given each country's existing power sector goals and activities and are an opportunity for countries to display leadership in power sector decarbonization. These action plans are voluntary, developed by each country individually, and can be viewed as a living document that is subject to change.

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In this work we describe the development of cost and performance projections for utility-scale lithium-ion battery systems, with a focus on 4-hour duration systems. The projections are developed from an analysis of recent publications that include utility-scale storage costs. The suite of publications demonstrates wide variation in projected cost reductions for battery storage over time. We use the recent publications to create low, mid, and high cost projections. Projected storage costs are $245/kWh, $326/kWh, and $403/kWh in 2030 and $159/kWh, $226/kWh, and $348/kWh in 2050. Battery variable operations and maintenance costs, lifetimes, and efficiencies are also discussed, with recommended values selected based on the publications surveyed.

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The Trade and Biodiversity product classification: Measuring trade in products with a biological origin

This report provides findings on U.S. locations where unidentified aerial phenomena are being reported to increase awareness about the types of activities that might be mistaken for unexplained phenomena or that point to potential threats.

How do central bank digital currencies (CBDC) impact the balance sheets of banks and central banks? To tackle this question empirically, we built a constraint optimisation model that allows for individual banks to choose how to respond to outflows of deposits, based on cost considerations and subject to the availability of reserves and collateral, within the individual banks and system wide, and for a given level of liquidity risk tolerance. We simulate the impact of a fictitious digital euro introduction in the third quarter of 2021, using data from over 2,000 euro area banks. That impact depends on i) the number of deposits withdrawn and the speed at which this occurs, ii) the liquidity available within the banking system at the time of the digital euro introduction, iii) the liquidity risk preferences of the markets and supervisors, iv) the bank’s business model, and v) the functioning of the interbank market. We find that a €3,000 digital euro holding limit per person, as suggested by Bindseil (2020) and Bindseil and Panetta (2020), would have been successful in containing the impact on bank liquidity risks and funding structures and on the Eurosystem balance sheet, even in extremely pessimistic scenarios.

Realizing product diversification for structural change in African countries, Working Paper, No. 4

Department of the Air Force accession eligibility criteria affect women and racial and ethnic minority candidates differently than they affect White men. Understanding the eligible population is crucial to growing a diverse workforce.

Journal of Financial Economics, 146 (2022) 90-118. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.05.004

Compilation guidelines for measurement of gender-in-trade statistics - Pilot testing methodologies

Researchers draw on the American Instructional Resources Survey to examine the prevalence of benchmark assessments and explore educators' perceptions about the role that benchmark assessments play in their schools' instructional systems.

Speech by Ms Victoria Cleland, Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation of the Bank of England, at the UK Finance Summer Networking Event, London, 20 July 2023.

The UAE’s real estate sector remains strong in the first half of 2023, despite some signs of moderation.

China’s GDP grew 2.5% year-over-year in H1 2022. Q2 GDP grew 0.4%. The Omicron outbreak in March–May had led to tightened quarantine measures in some areas, putting pressures on economic growth in Q2. With the recent outbreak gradually under control and additional policy stimulus, economic activity showed broad-based improvement in June.

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In this report, the authors consider how the United States can enhance engagement with highly capable allies and partners to improve interoperability by identifying some of the main barriers to security cooperation with these countries.

France was one of the European frontrunners in formulating policies to develop hydrogen for decarbonisation, publishing its first hydrogen plan in 2018, followed by a larger, €9-billion plan in 2020, hot on the heels of plans released by the European Commission and Germany. The French strategy for hydrogen deployment focuses in particular on applications where hydrogen is key for deep decarbonisation, including refineries and the chemical industry as well as steel production, and the mobility sector. The country aims to have a head start on European and world competitors thanks to large electricity resources from the existing nuclear fleet and by building new nuclear capacity. Additionally, it relies on several existing innovation hubs specialised in hydrogen, as well as the support of many local governments involved in hydrogen development and a relatively structured hydrogen industry. The French strategy for hydrogen does not include ambitions at the international level beyond scientific and technological cooperation within the European Union. The political priority is to develop a domestic industry sized to meet national demand, which is seen as a more secure sourcing strategy than relying on imports. This comes in contrast with the positions of France’s neighbours, notably Spain, Portugal and Germany, which are pushing to enable cross-border trade of hydrogen as early as possible. This situation has generated political tensions within the European Union and in particular in the Franco-German relationship.

The Least Developed Countries Report 2022

TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2022 - Development prospects in a fractured world: Global disorder and regional responses

TISCs and TTOs Report 2022 - Strengthening local innovation capacities to accelerate knowledge and technology transfer. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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The State of Commodity Dependence 2023, Characterizing commodity dependence, commodity exports, international merchandise trade, commodity-dependent states, Where are commodity-dependent countries located" What are the commodities exported by commodity-dependent countries? evolution of commodity prices, Commodity-Dependent UNCTAD member States and classifications,

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A country’s attractiveness as an offshore location for business services depends largely on its ability to reskill and redeploy the workforce in response to changing market demands and technological disruptions.

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