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News

Transforming trade, backing productive capacities is key to fixing global economy

UNCTAD Secretary-General sets down roadmap for health, productivity, prosperity and fixing a fractured global economy scarred by the coronavirus pandemic ahead of its October 2021 quadrennial conference in Barbados.

17 déc 2020

Investment promotion agencies from Estonia, India and Rwanda receive UN awards for excellence in their COVID-19 responses

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency wins special recognition for mainstreaming gender in investment promotion.

7 déc 2020

La CNUCED estime 16,7 milliards de dollars le cout économique de l'occupation israélienne à gaza au cours de la dernière décennie

Le bouclage prolongé et les opérations militaires laisse l'économie régionale de Gaza au bord de l'effondrement.

25 nov 2020

CNUCED : Les retombées économiques dues à la COVID-19 dureront plus longtemps que la crise sanitaire

Les inégalités et les vulnérabilités risquent de s'aggraver longtemps après qu'un vaccin soit disponible. La CNUCED propose une feuille de route pour une reprise plus inclusive et de meilleure qualité, en soulignant la nécessité de réorganiser les réseaux de production mondiaux.

19 nov 2020

World Investment Report

The Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.

It also provides analysis on global value chains and the operations of multinational enterprises, with special attention to their development implications.

Overviews of the report are also available in all official UN languages.

Transnational Corporations Journal

Transnational Corporations is a longstanding policy-oriented refereed research journal on issues related to investment, multinational enterprises and development.

It is an official journal of the United Nations, managed by UNCTAD.

As such it has a global reach, a strong development policy imprint, and high potential for impact beyond the scholarly community.

Report on G20 investment measures

The leaders of the G20, which comprises the world’s largest economies, are firmly committed to open trade and investment and to resisting protectionism in all its forms.

They have mandated WTO, OECD and UNCTAD – the leading international organisations in the area of international trade and investment policies – to monitor policy developments and report publicly on these commitments.