"ECONOMIC GROWTH"

On the margins of the United Nations 2023 Water conference an African Union (AU) official said, “the strategic importance” of water “places it in the frontline of national interest,” and can be “a veritable tool for both economic growth and stability.” UNIFEED

At the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, Qatar, a series of roundtable discussions on Tuesday saw global leaders dove into climate change. UNIFEED

Presenting the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stimulus plan, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Achim Steiner said the plan “calls for a measurable increase in resources available to combat the current crisis of at least 500 billion dollars a year through expanded lending, and potentially over 1.8 trillion.” UNIFEED

According to a new UN report, world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 percent in 2022 to 1.9 percent in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades. UNIFEED

The International Monetary Fund stands ready to support Egyptian authorities’ economic reforms and efforts to tame inflation, Fund Mission Chief for Egypt Ivanna Vladkova Hollar said in a news conference on Tuesday in Washington, DC. IMF

Global growth is slowing sharply in the face of elevated inflation, higher interest rates, reduced investment, and disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. WORLD BANK GROUP

General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Opening the UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General said that “the deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.