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20 juin 2013UNCTAD Public Symposium to focus on strategies for development in years after 2015

Input from civil society – non-governmental organizations, academics, business leaders, and others – will be sought during a two-day debate on how to raise living standards and spur economic growth in a world that has changed greatly since the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set in 2000.

20 juin 2013International investment policymaking is in transition

UNCTAD's fourth IIA Issues Note for this year looks at treaty termination rules in bilateral investment treaties (BITs). It finds that 1,300 BITs will have reached their "anytime termination stage" by the end of this year.

20 juin 2013UNCTAD certifies eleven port managers in Namibia

Eleven managers from the port communities of Walvis Bay, Namibia, have earned the UNCTAD Modern Port Management Certificate.

19 juin 2013Secretary-General meets with President of Seychelles

UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi has met with Seychelles President James Michel, and has handed over an independent review of the country's competition and consumer protection legislation.

19 juin 2013Tony Tujan of IBON International, Philippines, to discuss trade and investment rules at UNCTAD Public Symposium

“An alternative investment strategy must translate into a concrete set of policies that give special attention to domestic resource mobilization, particularly to innovative ways of generating domestic revenue to meet public investment needs and to promote the growth of a domestic industrial base.” - Tony Tujan

18 juin 2013Tanzanian parliamentarian and Vice-President of Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade to participate in UNCTAD Public Symposium

“To address global food security, Africa now calls for a strong and efficient delivery system, capable of meeting the expanding and diverse needs of agriculture and rural development,” states Hon. Hamad Rashid Mohamed, Member of Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania and Vice-President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade.

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