Luxembourg Minister calls for cooperation based on UNCTAD model 21 Sep - Speaking at the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board session on Wednesday on the item "Development strategies in a globalized world: Reducing inequalities for balanced and sustainable development," H.E. Dr. Nicolas Schmit, Minister of Labour, Employment and Immigration of Luxembourg called for a new model for cooperation among countries from different parts of the world. EMPRETEC Latin America Forum takes off in Panama21 Sep - The first official meeting of the EMPRETEC Latin America Forum was hosted by EMPRETEC Panama in Panama City last week, following a regional training workshop that brought together EMPRETEC directors and trainers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru and Venezuela to share experiences and discuss new developments. Economic growth for Africa: the sustainable way20 Sep - Experts at the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board session today said African countries will have to make major structural changes to their economies -- and should look at it as an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of green economic growth. UNCTAD report calls for improved access to medicines in context of local pharmaceutical production20 Sep - An UNCTAD report now made available on the website suggests that a coherent framework linking local pharmaceutical production to greater access from the onset within countries is urgently called for to harness the full potential of local production capacities. Improvement in access to medicines in the context of local production should not be incidental but should be an explicit goal, the report says. Benefits from Global Value Chains require proactive policies on part of developing country governments, says UNCTAD S-G19 Sep - Addressing the opening ceremony of the conference on "Global Value Chain in the 21st Century: Policy Implications on Trade, Investment, Statistics and Developing Countries" organised jointly by China's Ministry of Commerce, UNCTAD, OECD and WTO in Beijing today, UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi urged more proactive policies by developing countries in areas such as industrial strategy for them to be able to benefit fully from the growing phenomenon of global value chains. Reducing income gaps termed vital for economic recovery19 Sep - Greater income inequality is reducing economic demand, hindering the current recovery, and limiting future growth, speakers told the Trade and Development Board (TDB). They said governments should help to reverse the trend. |
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