20 September 2012Economic growth for Africa: the sustainable wayExperts 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. 20 September 2012UNCTAD report calls for improved access to medicines in context of local pharmaceutical productionAn 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. 19 September 2012Benefits from Global Value Chains require proactive policies on part of developing country governments, says UNCTAD S-GAddressing 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. 19 September 2012Reducing income gaps termed vital for economic recoveryGreater 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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