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UNCTAD puts spotlight on landlocked developing countries ahead of UN conference in Vienna
31 Oct -

Meetings in Geneva and New York consider investment in LLDCs and their participation in regional and global commodity value chains.

Sixty certificates awarded to participants of UNCTAD's first course on non-tariff measures
27 Oct -

​UNCTAD’s Virtual Institute and the Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities has awarded the "UNCTAD Certified Non-Tariff Measures Data Collector Certificate" to 60 participants of the first online course on non-tariff measures.

'People must prevail over capital' says Ecuador's President Rafael Correa at Prebisch Lecture
24 Oct -
President Rafael Correa Delgado of Ecuador told an audience of hundreds that “subjugation of living, breathing human beings to the needs of capital” is not acceptable in a damning critique of “an immoral and unjust world order” during a special lecture on 24 October organized by UNCTAD in Geneva to mark the organization’s fiftieth anniversary year.
Accountancy experts consider role of corporate reporting in economic development
24 Oct -

​UNCTAD hosted the thirty-first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR), an event which this year took place as part of UNCTAD's World Investment Forum 2014.

Rapid urbanization demands investment in sustainable development of cities, meeting told
23 Oct -

Investment is key to making fast-growing cities liveable, inclusive, and sustainable, city and business leaders heard at a roundtable organized by UNCTAD and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN) as part of the UNCTAD World Investment Forum 2014 in Geneva.

United Nations meeting seeks reform of investment treaties
23 Oct -

​More than 50 high-level representatives from governments, the private sector and civil society convened in Geneva on 16 October to address the challenges arising from international investment agreements (IIAs) and consider ways to reform the international investment policy regime at a United Nations meeting held during UNCTAD's World Investment Forum at the Palais des Nations.

Developing countries and sovereign wealth funds ready for partnership on sustainable investment
23 Oct -

​Policymakers and representatives of major sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and pension funds discussed the possible contribution of state-owned investment funds to the development agenda at an SWF roundtable held on 15 October during the UNCTAD World Investment Forum in Geneva.

UNCTAD works with business schools to focus studies on needs of low-income countries
22 Oct -

​UNCTAD announced the launch of a global initiative to bolster the contribution business schools and management education can make to development on the final day of the World Investment Forum, Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 16 October.

Women in Rwanda make remarkable advances thanks to inclusive policies, UNCTAD study finds
22 Oct -

​Rwanda is a leading example of the successful integration of gender considerations in a country's legislation and development framework, a new UNCTAD study has found, leading to remarkable advances in the status of Rwandan women and girls.

Productive capacity, diversification needed to boost growth in Landlocked Developing Countries
22 Oct -

​There are structural hurdles to unlocking growth in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), a high-level meeting on investment in LLDCs heard on the final day of UNCTAD's World Investment Forum at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 16 October.

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