Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Day

This session introduces a new World Bank Group modelling framework that treats AI not as a simple productivity shock, but as a structural transformation of the production process. By embedding the hardware–software production paradigm into the Bank's dynamic CGE model (MANAGE), we simulate how AI adoption reshapes sectors, occupations, prices, under budget constraints over time. Are we missing the true economic impact of AI? How can we equip policymakers with better tools? Investments in generative AI are accelerating rapidly, yet our understanding of its economy-wide impact remains limited. While firm-level studies and task-based evidence are expanding, macroeconomic projections still range from modest productivity gains to transformative growth effects. For policymakers, this uncertainty makes effective decision-making difficult This session introduces a new World Bank Group modelling framework that treats AI not as a simple productivity shock, but as a structural transformation ...

2026 roadmap for the implementation of HRC Decision 56/116. The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will hold its eleventh session, from 20 to 24 October 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, Room XVI. Related Sites and Documents:  HRC - Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 11th Session Watch 9th Meeting, 11th Session, Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations! Conferences

  Summary of the intersessional thematic consultations on Articles 4 to 11 and interactive discussion (cont'd). The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will hold its eleventh session, from 20 to 24 October 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, Room XVI. Related Sites and Documents:  HRC - Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 11th Session Watch the 8th Meeting, 11th Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations! Conferences

Summary of the intersessional thematic consultations on Articles 4 to 11 and interactive discussion (cont'd). The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will hold its eleventh session, from 20 to 24 October 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, Room XVI. Related and Documents:  HRC - Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 11th Session Watch the 8th Meeting, 11th Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations! Conferences

Summary of the intersessional thematic consultations on Articles 4 to 11 and interactive discussion. The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will hold its eleventh session, from 20 to 24 October 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, Room XVI. Related Sites and Documents:  HRC - Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 11th Session . Watch the 6th Meeting, 11th Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations! Conferences

State-led negotiations: Articles 12 to 24 (cont'd). The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will hold its eleventh session, from 20 to 24 October 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, Room XVI. Related Sites and Documents:  HRC - Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 11th Session Watch the 5th Meeting, 11th Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations! Conferences