UNU-MERIT UNESCO Chair event examines investment strategies for climate and development goals When it comes to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, who will finance the investments needed to do so, and will the funding sources be domestic or foreign, public or private, or from debts or grants? And, in a macroeconomic context, how can we ensure that such investments will have their desired effects on the green transitions of nations? These are the questions Andrés Velasco, Dean of the ...

Emerging Markets is the latest specialisation in the bachelor’s programmes in International Business and Economics and Business Economics at Maastricht University. New as it may be, it is already popular. It has even spurred the development of a follow-up programme to be launched in September 2018: the Master in Economics and Strategy in Emerging Markets. “Emerging economies are changing the world radically,” says Dr. Kaj Thomsson, coordinator of the bachelor’s specialisation. “This ...

Eradicating poverty has been a global priority since the founding of the United Nations. Thanks to international efforts, the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has fallen by more than half over the last three decades: 1.9 billion in 1990 to 836 million in 2015, according to the MDG Report of 2015. Yet despite impressive progress, more remains to be done in terms of poverty reduction and levelling the playing field – both between and within countries....

Why should emerging economies enter the nanotech race? What trade-offs should they make in the catch-up process? Nanotechnology and Development: What’s in it for Emerging Countries? attempts to answer these and many more questions. The book highlights the nature and magnitude of the nanotech divide between high-income countries and the rest of the world. It studies the evolution and functioning of state policy and technology clusters in developed regions like the US and EU in order to identify t...