Launch of the Trade and Development Report 2014

10 September 2014

06:00 - 06:00 hrs.

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TDR 2014 Rethinking global development from a historical perspective underpins the Trade and Development Report 2014.

Considering 50 years of UNCTAD, but also 70 years since the Bretton Woods Conference, the report will look beyond the MDGs to the development agenda after 2015 by examining the role of the state in developing countries and asking how they can provide policy space for trade and finance decision-making in the future.

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