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• Indonesia Rolls Out Augmented Reality Innovation To Combat COVID

  Published 14 October 2020 | viewed 7,611 times

  AR – a technology often closely associated with virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) – integrates digital information into a real-time, physical environment. Unlike…

• South Asia Is Set To Unleash A Flurry Of IPOs

  Published 07 October 2020 | viewed 5,716 times

  The onset of Covid-19 gave rise to a dramatic, worldwide decline in IPOs, with April and May registering a 48% decrease in volume and a…

• COVID-19 Is Fueling A Pastic Waste Crisis

  Published 19 September 2020 | viewed 4,663 times

  While lockdowns initiated in response to the pandemic are expected to result in an estimated 5% drop in greenhouse gas emissions this year, according to…

• How COVID-19 Is Transforming The World's Sovereign Wealth Funds

  Published 12 September 2020 | viewed 10,919 times

  The IMF predicts that the global economy will contract by 4.9% this year, down from growth of 2.9% in 2019, while the World Bank has…

• Latin American Remittances Defy COVID Predictions

  Published 27 August 2020 | viewed 14,042 times

  In the first six months of the year remittances to Mexico totalled $19.1bn, a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase of 10.4%, according to Banco de México, the…

• How COVID Is Transforming Public Transportation

  Published 19 August 2020 | viewed 3,965 times

  In April, Mexico City’s metro system – the largest in Latin America – carried the lowest number of passengers since records began in 1983. Elsewhere,…

• How COVID-19 Could Change Elections Forever

  Published 14 August 2020 | viewed 2,900 times

  According to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental organisation, at least 69 countries and territories had postponed national or subnational elections as a…

• Emerging Economies Could Get Left Behind In Race For COVID Vaccine

  Published 11 August 2020 | viewed 15,203 times

  With 20m people infected globally and 735,000 virus-related deaths as of August 10, it is becoming increasingly clear that a vaccine is required for societies…

• COVID Has Sparked A Surge In Cybercrime

  Published 08 August 2020 | viewed 7,786 times

  As lockdowns and curfews were introduced around the world to protect citizens from Covid-19, daily life moved online. In terms of work, many companies utilised…

• Impact Investing Remains Strong Despite COVID-19 Market Downturn

  Published 15 July 2020 | viewed 6,780 times

  In a sign of the depressed business sentiment that has accompanied the virus-related economic slowdown, UNCTAD, the UN’s trade body, predicted in June that global…

• Cash In A Post-Pandemic World

  Published 11 June 2020 | viewed 5,364 times

  Concerns over the spread of the virus, along with the implementation of lockdown measures, have resulted in a significant global increase in cashless payments during…

• COVID-19 Is Fueling A Global Video Game Boom

  Published 09 June 2020 | viewed 3,135 times

  Once geared towards affluent consumers in developed markets, the video games industry has grown rapidly in emerging economies in recent years, thanks to three principal factors: the…

• Can Domestic Tourism Bolster Emerging Economies?

  Published 26 May 2020 | viewed 3,187 times

  Since the Covid-19 outbreak was first reported in China in December 2019, some 5.58m people have been infected with the virus, leading to 348,000 deaths…