NNW Bureau

Bangkok: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) Managements today released the Bangkok Blueprint, a high-level framework developed in coordination with the Bank of Thailand that …

ERO piloted AMPL testlets and standards in 37 schools across 12 districts, with the main test administration planned for March 2027. Reliable evidence on children’s reading and mathematics skills helps …

The UNESCO Regional Office for the Caribbean participated in the 22nd High-Level Forum for Caribbean Ministers Responsible for Water, held in Grenada on 12–13 October 2026 within the framework of …

On 12 October 2026, the UNESCO Sudan Office facilitated the participation of Sudanese stakeholders in a two-day hybrid event organised in collaboration with the UNESCO Cairo Office and the Arab …

In Sudan, where conflict and displacement have profoundly affected communities, safeguarding this living heritage is essential to preserving cultural identity, maintaining connections between generations and supporting recovery. To advance these …

As part of the partnership between the Ministry of Culture and UNESCO to rehabilitate public libraries in Lebanon, the two institutions continue to work together to develop libraries and strengthen …

The festival is organised by the Kazakhstan National Federation of Clubs for UNESCO and the World Federation of Clubs and Associations for UNESCO (WFUCA), in collaboration with the Almaty Museum of …

For commodity-exporting emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), recent years have delivered something more unsettling than the usual commodity cycle of boom and bust. Overlapping shocks — from the pandemic …

Last year, we surveyed firms in emerging markets backed by private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds, which we refer to as frontier firms, and found that almost 40 …

Bangkok, Thailand: On 13 October 2026, the Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) convened their 11th Annual High-level Dialogue in Bangkok, Thailand, at the margins of …