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Rising inflation and external shocks may lead to slowdown in growth – Dun & Bradstreet report

Mumbai, May 05, 2022 Key economic forecast: Real Economy: Dun & Bradstreet expects industrial production during March to have been impacted by uncertainty posed by the Russia-Ukraine war, the rise in commodity prices, volatility in the financial markets and supply chain bottlenecks. Dun & Bradstreet expects the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to have grown …

Progress on corporate transparency in EU

GRI remains committed to alignment as draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards unveiled Amsterdam, 2 May 2022 – The publication of the exposure drafts for the new European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) have been welcomed by GRI, the world’s leading provider of standards on sustainability impacts. Since July 2021, GRI has worked with the European Financial …

Rise in Cyber Threats Targeting the Global Education Sector, but India the biggest Victim?

2nd May, 2022 – CloudSEK has identified a 20% increase in cyber threats targeting the global education sector in the first quarter of 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. The growing global education and training market is a breeding ground for cybercriminals targeting entities and institutions in the sector. Remote learning, digitization of education, and …

March 2022 crude steel production

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 161.0 million tonnes (Mt) in March 2022, a 5.8% decrease compared to March 2021. Crude steel production by region Global crude steel production was 456.6 Mt in the first three months of 2022, down by 6.8% compared to the …

Global Coordination Could Unlock more Efficient Trade, New TradeTech Report Reveals

TradeTech, the set of technologies that enables global trade and its digitalization, is critical for trade and supply chain resilience and economic recovery World Economic Forum and World Trade Organization (WTO) publish joint report – The promise of TradeTech: Policy approaches to harness trade digitalization – to reveal five policy frontiers and how global coordination could …