As urban populations continue to expand and citizens’ expectations grow, the development of smart cities – enabled, powered and integrated by digital technologies – is set to be one of the crowning achievements of societies worldwide in the 21st century.

China’s green bond market is already the second largest in the world, hitting $31.3bn of certified issuance in 2019, according to data from the Climate Bonds Initiative. It only looks likely to get bigger. A recent plan to remove clean coal from the list of eligible green bond projects in the onshore market will bring China much closer to international standards ─ and encourage a surge of investment from foreign portfolio managers.

The 4th Industry Revolution has begun. Unlike the steam that power our factories in the first revolution or the mass production model that dominating the second or the emergence of the computer driven system from the third revolution that we are living today, Industry 4.0 is about CONNECTIVITY.

The Arabia Monitor MENA COVID-19 Situation Report provides updates on the COVID-19 outbreak and its repercussions in the MENA region, including the set of response measures that countries have unveiled at national, regional, and local levels to counter the spread of the virus. As we analyse the double whammy from this and the oil price crash, we give you information on the rounds of economic relief packages, austerity measures and state-backed...

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Welcome to the Inframation July newsletter, providing the most read content in June and a what's to come in the months ahead.

RSVP Webinar with Canadian International Council (CIC) on MENA, BRI & Implications for North America

This week’s latest investment news highlights the current state of major countries around the world. The pandemic has continuously made it challenging for countries to bounce back from the decline in economic performance. On a positive note, countries have started to reopen their markets in the hopes of gradual recovery. Focus now is on regrouping and pushing forward its plans in a COVID-19 existing world.

CNKI joins hands with Chinese Economic Association(CEA, UK/Europe), Chinese Economists Society(CES, US), Chinese Economics Society Australia(CESA, Australia), Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management Studies(JACEM, Japan), China Health Policy and Management Society(CHPAMS, US) and Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies(UK) to invite some top professional experts and scholars from University of Bridge, University of...

Competitiveness: In a comparison of 63 countries, Austria moved up three notches, from 19th to 16th place, thus overtaking Germany.