by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Highlighted, Solution
Challenge Today, a person living in Asia-Pacific is still five times more likely to be affected by natural disasters than a person living outside the region. This was seen during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which resulted in more than 225,000 deaths and widespread...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge LDCs and SIDS in Asia and the Pacific, and in Africa, share a number of structural challenges and geophysical constraints that result in disproportionately large economic, social and environmental challenges that hinder their development. These countries...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Although Portuguese is the 6th most commonly spoken language in the world and the most common in the Southern hemisphere, spoken by more than 300 million people in eight Member States across four continents, an ongoing need exists to develop Portuguese...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In the past decade, the Portuguese-speaking countries of Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea- Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste have experienced significant progress in economic governance. Recent public finance management reforms are the...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge While the global outreach of microfinance has grown over the past 30 years, an estimated 2.7 billion people around the world do not use formal financial services. About 56 per cent of adults worldwide remain unbanked. While access to financial services,...
