Not all is rosy in the Middle Kingdom. Since 2021, its economy has been destabilized…

The Main Topics of the September 2024 Issue of the World Economic Journal

The need for reform has been given added urgency by the rapidly approaching deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals which make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, created to set out measurable targets for building a better future by the end of the decade.

It also drives forced migration. If people can no longer produce food on their land then they will migrate. As we have seen for example in the Sahel or Haiti, there can be severe consequences for global security. When people fight over access to land and water, it leads to more conflicts. We are seeing more of this, and it has consequences on the homogeneity of communities and on national economies.

© UNICEF/Lasse Bak Mejlvang Workers construct barriers to combat sea erosion along the coastline…

©UNESCO/Hossein Javadi A train crosses a bridge as it makes its journey through a…