The twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) took place on February 20-24. ECOSOC President Luchezara Stoeva and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Li Junhua opened the event, which discussed and prepared recommendations on a range of topics, such as a “fair transition” to a low-carbon global economy, the intensifying debt problems of poor…
Over the past decade, the role of China in Russia’s foreign trade has grown significantly and now, most likely, it will become the country’s main trade partner, boasting a large margin from other countries, NES Professor and Director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research Natalya Volchkova says. It is China's stance that will largely determine Russia's…
New Economic School organized an international round table "Women in politics: why are they under-represented?" with experts from nine FREE Network countries. The event was moderated by NES professor Natalya Volchkova who announced that the event was part of a series of round tables dedicated to gender inequality in various spheres. She also noted that gender equality was one of the Global…