With much of its long-term development plan hindered by international trade laws, the current global order has been labeled “unfit” by Indonesian delegates at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, who also urged for the end of “discriminatory” trade policies.
These repeated calls from Indonesia came as the country tries to escape from what has been described as the middle-income trap, and amid a bid to enter the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Ahead of the 78th UN General Assembly (UNGA) opening ceremony on Tuesday, global representatives kick-started the week’s flurry of me…
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