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Trade and Development Commission, fifth session (17-21 June 2013)

Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting. Domestic Requirements and Support Measures in Green Sectors

Release of Second Report of UNCTAD Panel of Eminent Persons

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, thirtieth session (with workshop)	05-08 Nov 2013
Ninth International Debt Management Conference (Plus Advisory Group meeting)	11-15 Nov 2013
Launch of the Least Developed Countries Report 2013	20 Nov 2013
Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, sixty-sixth session	02-04 Dec 2013

CALENDAR

News

Latin American bank to lead export-import network

18 Jun -

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (Bladex) has been elected to lead the Global Network of Exim Banks and Development Finance Institutions (G-NEXID) for the next four years.

Head of economic research at International Trade Union Confederation-Africa to join debate on macroeconomic and financial governance on the road to 2015, at UNCTAD Public Symposium

18 Jun -

"A global governance which is only focusing on fiscal and macroeconomic stability is a catastrophe for States and people. It must rather allow bearing the challenge of the creation of productive and decent jobs, which is the guarantee of sustainable development for the benefit of the people." Boèvi Kouglo Lawson Body

Ninth UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures released

17 Jun -

The report finds that G20 members have continued to honour their pledge not to introduce new restrictive policies for international investment. However, it cautions policymakers that foreign direct investment (FDI) may not only be limited through formal policy changes, but also through individual administrative decisions and informal public signals that are beyond the scope of the report.

Hibist Kassa, of Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era, Ghana, to share her experiences at UNCTAD Public Symposium

17 Jun -

"In this period of multiple and interlinked crises, a drive for an alternative framework must unpack in the clearest possible terms what a transformation agenda is," Hibist Kassa has said.