Food security is increasingly dependent on international trade, making it critical to keep trade in food flowing, WTO Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff noted on 30 April. In remarks delivered on his behalf by WTO Agriculture Division Director Edwini Kessie at the “Trade Dialogues on Food” webinar, he said that, on balance, governments have been quick to recognize the value of international trade for global food security during the COVID-19 crisis and are taking concrete action to protect the global food supply chain from disruption. His remarks are below:

Growth means different things at different companies, but correctly identifying avenues for sustainable and scalable growth is a universal priority.

TC Early Stage SF goes down on April 28, and we are getting pretty damn excited about it! The show will bring together 50+ experts across startup core competencies, such as fundraising, operations and marketing. We’ll hear from VCs on how to create the perfect pitch deck and how to identify the right investors for […]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released updated projections of future U.S. energy production and use in its Annual Energy Outlook 2020 (AEO2020) today.

CEOs are more optimistic about growth than international counterparts, despite concerns about over-regulation and the Government's response to Australia's fiscal deficit, according to a PwC report launched today.

PwC has acquired infrastructure advisory firm Appian Group, bolstering the firm’s focus on health and social infrastructure, PwC Managing Partner, Deals Sean Gregory announced today.

The workplace gender gap is at its widest among the expat community with only one in four Australian females currently working overseas, PwC People Business Partner Jonathan Dunlea said today while launching a new report.

The key to Japan's economic future lies in growing it's engagement with the countries on its doorstep, according to a PwC report released today.

While technology and innovation are transforming our economy, they are also the solution to our workforce and growth challenge.

Australia’s four major banks delivered combined underlying cash earnings of $15.5 billion for the first-half to March 2015.

Australian entertainment and media market is forecast to grow to $43.4 billion by 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.2 percent.

PwC Australia welcomes Murray Deakin as a Partner in PwC Australia’s Tax & Legal Practice to drive further growth in their legal team.

Australian small businesses can unlock an additional $49.2 billion in output over the next ten years by making better use of existing technology, PwC analysis commissioned by Google released today shows.

Australian CEOs are less confident about domestic growth than their regional peers, and less certain of their ability to capture a return in Asia Pacific markets.

Major tax reform is the most sensible lever to pull to combat a projected $48 billion in lost revenue in our new low growth economy.

If the company tax rate was reduced from 30 to 25 per cent over the next five years gross domestic product (GDP) would grow $291 billion and income tax revenues would generate $4 billion up to the year 2025, PwC modelling released today shows.

Twenty tech entrepreneurs have been chosen for a new accelerator program run by PwC and backed by some of Australia's largest corporates that aims to rapidly scale Australia's most promising science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education initiatives.

A lack of diversity in Australia's media and entertainment workforce in terms of ethnicity, gender, age and thinking is dragging on the industry's growth, according to a PwC report released today.

Tinder will add a video dating feature in the second quarter of this year, parent company Match announced on Tuesday as part of its Q1 2020 earnings report. The company also detailed the coronavirus impact, which slowed Tinder user growth in the quarter, as social distancing requirements and government lockdowns went into effect. Match didn’t […]

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Tandem is amongst the most sought after companies of Y Combinator's summer batch.

Fresh off of a large round of layoffs, Lyft reported its Q1 results this afternoon. The ride-hailing company disclosed that it generated revenue of $955.7 million in the first three months of 2020, up 23% from its year-ago Q1 revenue result of $776 million. The company’s net loss of $398.1 million was also an improvement […]

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. As the economy has worsened, the market for many goods and services has slowed. Some SaaS products have found themselves immune, or even boosted by recently changes in consumer and business consumption patterns and travel […]

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India has been the world's fourth-largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) since 2011, gradually increasing LNG imports as the country's domestic natural gas production declined and domestic consumption increased. India's LNG import capacity more than doubled during the past 10 years, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects it to increase by a third in the next 3 years as regasification facilities currently under construction come online. However, the construction of domestic pipelines to move LNG from the coastal import facilities to major demand centers further inland has experienced delays. Future growth in India's LNG imports will depend on the timely completion of natural gas pipeline networks.

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In an exclusive first look at the film Thomas struggles to hide his fury as he asked to step aside, and snaps that he 'won't be a sort of anything.'

Around 120 horses and 150 personnel left their barracks in London for an annual training visit to the North Norfolk coast. The unit is the Queen's ceremonial saluting battery.

EXCLUSIVE: She has gone from working-class prisoner in Vera Drake to the aristocracy as Lady Bagshaw in the Downton Abbey movie. Now Imelda Staunton has achieved royal status in The Crown.

Close friends say Claire Foy is providing a consoling shoulder for Matt Smith, whose relationship with girlfriend Lily James, has been the subject of increasing talk among showbiz insiders.

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly made history at the National Television Awards on Tuesday as they won the Best Presenter Award for the nineteenth year in a row.

Montana Brown certainly didn't disappoint when she attended the National Television Awards 2020 at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday night, donning a daring dress for the occasion.

The cast of the ITV soap took to the stage to accept the honour, just days after leaving viewers gripped with a week of episodes leading to the murder of Graham Foster.

The Dancing On Ice contestant, 29, reportedly left Tuesday's National Television Awards in tears as she engaged in a heated exchange with her boyfriend Curtis Pritchard.

Chris Hughes and Jesy Nelson's National Television Awards row was sparked by the ex-Love Island star being banned from doing interviews with his girlfriend.

JAN MOIR: Not only did Mrs Brown's Boys win the award for Best Comedy at the National Television Awards in London, it had the temerity to beat Fleabag and Ricky Gervais's After Life.

Jesy Nelson has finally thrown her support behind boyfriend Chris Hughes in the wake of his shocking National Television Awards brawl with a photographer.

Kyly Clarke is reportedly seeking comfort in a new friend following her split from retired Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke.

Quique Setien's son has revealed his desire for his dad to take Neymar back to Barcelona.

She's one of Australia's biggest fitness influencers. And on Tuesday, Tammy Hembrow revealed she has recently become vegan and will try to maintain the strict diet for the whole year.

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and her rumoured boyfriend Joseph Robinson appear to have confirmed that they are dating.

Lily Allen has said she is 'sick to death' of people like Laurence Fox who are guilty of 'forcing their opinions on everybody else', after his Question Time race row. She told him to 'stick to acting'.

Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp has claimed that his co-stars Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard 'want to hook up'.

He's dating chart-topping pop star Miley Cyrus. And Australian singer Cody Simpson proved he's well-connected in his own right.

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown joined Miley Cyrus via webcam on Monday afternoon for the singer's latest episode of her Instagram Live series Bright Minded.

They've grown up as sisters in the spotlight in the same Modern Family, and on Friday night they were two of the brightest stars heading into Emmys weekend.

They just made their first red carpet appearance together at the Emmys on Sunday. And Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Brad Falchuk stepped out again in public on Tuesday night as they grabbed a

He is about as unpredictable as they come but on his day he can be a handful on the court. But can you name the current world No 43 from when he was a youngster?

EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday, Kyrgios lost in the mixed doubles alongside partner Desirae Krawczyk before he flirted with her in the press conference, saying, 'We've got a club set up, it is going to be outrageous'.

First he dispatched a rank outsider. Then one of the biggest rebels in tennis. And yesterday Rafael Nadal came up against the eternal entertainer that is Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and again prevailed.