This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate change and post-COVID recovery. Using the broader lens of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to assess the roles and responsibilities of each of these stakeholders and their relationships, the book offers policy, economic arguments, case studies and examples to argue that neither national or local governments, nor...

This Palgrave Pivot, in light of the new conditions, the new realities and the essential new “unknowns” abruptly thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic, offers pragmatic policy prescriptions to Egyptian decision-makers as a road map to guide them in steering the country out of crisis and toward a better future for the Egyptian people. Egypt is the world’s 14th largest country by population but ranks only 44th globally with regards to its GDP (in 2019 nominal US$ terms). The mismatch between Egypt’s population size and GDP rank highlights a key concern of this work – that in spite of...