The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap in existing inequalities and obstacles to women's empowerment and entrepreneurship, further endangering progress on a host of international development frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (...)
Manufacturing in Latin American has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with significant decreases in industrial production, intra-regional trade and exports compounding existing barriers to growth.
However, accelerated digitalization (...)
Green hydrogen solutions have the potential to revolutionize the global energy system and lead to decarbonization of heavy industry and transport within the next decade, especially in the hard-to-abate sectors. However a virtual panel of sustainable (...)
The global pandemic is transforming the social and economic landscape of economies around the world, and without a clear strategy that enables and encourages small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Eurasia to adopt Fourth Industrial (...)
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in the global economy. They are also under immense pressure to digitalize to keep up with the pace of change and become resilient against the effects of the current and future pandemics, (...)
Supply chains around the world are being reshaped — not just by the pandemic but also by the political landscapes in different regions, according to PwC experts. Many of the world's global supply chains saw extreme disruption through the pandemic, (...)
The Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (GMIS) announced a new partnership model that will enable more cities around the world to mobilise the global manufacturing community and encourage cross-border collaboration and partnerships to (...)
The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) Saturday announced an unconventional global initiative, in partnership with leading German associations, to accelerate the decarbonisation of industry and the development of renewable (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic would have taken a lower toll on human lives if global production was not dominated by a handful of states, Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, said at the virtual edition of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation (...)
Ministers and officials from the public sector gathered to discuss and debate the cooperation required to kickstart manufacturing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a globally available vaccine, and balancing the benefits of fourth industrial (...)
Badr Al Olama, Head of the Organizing Committee, Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (GMIS) has highlighted the urgent need for a global dialogue to shape the future of the industrial sector in light of the coronavirus, COVID-19, (...)
Germany's Marshall Plan with Africa marks a new era of cooperation between Europe and Africa that could drive industrial development and deliver huge opportunities for the Africa's fast-growing youth population, according to speakers at the (...)
Ministers from the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Federation, and Indonesia, three of the world's major fossil fuel exporters, discussed efforts to diversify their economies and shift towards a green economy at the #GMIS2020 Virtual Summit, (...)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has led calls to place advanced technologies at the heart of the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted economies and devastated communities around the world, in his speech at (...)
General António Guterres will deliver a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Virtual Summit of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit (#GMIS2020), which is scheduled to take place on Sept. 4-5.
The summit will also convene (...)
Global foreign direct investment in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is projected to plunge by 25 percent to 50 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.
"This will threaten the world's ability to (...)
Senior representatives from Dell Technologies and Pirelli agreed that the acceleration of digital transformation is necessary to prepare for future disruptions. While companies that embarked on digital transformation programs years ago are now (...)
The plane carrying 47 unaccompanied minors from
refugee camps in Greece to Germany reached Hanover on Saturday morning.
They are now heading to the Osnabrueck region to spend 14 days in quarantine as part of the measures to contain the coronavirus, (...)
Alexander Gauland, the parliamentary
co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, will also
be co-leader of the overall party, alongside returning co-leader Joerg Meuthen, according to dpa.
Gauland had initially not thrown his hat into (...)
A World War II bomb that was discovered unexploded in
the northern Germany city of Hanover has been successfully detonated, according to dpa.
The approximately 6,500 people who were evacuated from their homes on Tuesday are to return to them during (...)
Delegation of the Youths Business Council of the Eastern region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia visited today the Hannover International Fair in Germany and toured all the pavilions of the exhibition.
The visit comes as part of the Saudi German (...)
US President Barack Obama on Sunday accused North Korea of "provocation" following reports of renewed missile testing by the isolated country, according to dpa.
While the United States lacked precise information on the latest tests, they were being (...)
US President Barack Obama arrived in Germany on Sunday to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his closest allies in dealing with a shaky global economy and security crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.
It will be the last stop (...)
US President Barack Obama arrived in Hanover on Sunday for the start of his visit to Germany.
The premier of the northern German state of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, welcomed Obama before the president headed off for talks with German Chancellor (...)
German carmarker Volkswagen on Wednesday started its major recall of vehicles fitted with emissions-cheating software after clearance by the transport authority in the northern city of Flensburg, according to dpa.
First up was VW's Amarok pick-up (...)