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Trade in Transition: South America Looks to Neutrality, Opportunity

3BL Media

This reflects the need for agility as global trade dynamics shift. Chinas Influence: A Double-Edged Sword Chinas economic footprint in South America has grown significantly, with bilateral trade increasing from $18 billion in 2002 to over $500 billion in 2024. Curious to learn more about South Americas trade dynamics?

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. Biffa says it has reduced carbon emissions by 70% since 2002 and aims to be net-zero by 2050.

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Productivity at the core: How COOs deliver strategy

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, global productivity growth has largely declined around the world. percent annually between 1997 and 2002 to 1.6 percent between 2002 and 2007. Even before the crisis, advanced economies’ productivity growth receded from 2.2 It dropped further once the crisis receded, to under 1.0

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Reimagining Business Ownership in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation

Set up in 2002 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC) to promote Colombian coffee, Procafecol has expanded the scope of Colombias coffee industry from commoditized beans to value-added products sold in domestic and international markets.

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Mayor of Beaverton Makes Proclamation for International Paper

3BL Media

For 125 years, International Paper has been the catalyst in the global economy as the world’s leading producer of renewable packaging, pulp and other fiber-based products essential to everyday life. International Paper opened in Beaverton in 1956, first as Western Kraft and became part of International Paper in 2002.

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Adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda

Sustainable Development Network

The conference concluded with the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), reiterating the commitments of the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and setting out an ambitious agenda for raising the necessary resources to achieve sustainable development.

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Canada’s Best 50 corporate citizens of 2022 continue to conquer the markets

Corporate Knights

Thankfully, the glass ceilings in Canada’s corporate boardrooms have been breached, with non-male members now making up almost a third of directors, double their one-sixth share in 2002. million in total compensation, or about 106 times as much as their average employee (a ratio that has grown by more than 50% since 2002).