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Graduation Ceremony: Training of Palestinian Authority staff on UN system in Geneva
… Two staff members from the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of the National Economy have completed an UNCTAD training programme designed to familiarize them with the activities of UNCTAD and the work of other United Nations …
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eCommerce Week 2018: Development Dimension of Digital Platforms
… E-commerce continues to grow in the global economy. According to UNCTAD's 2017 Information Economy Report , the value of global e-commerce increased to an estimated $25 trillion in 2015, up from $16 trillion in 2013. The report stresses that the world is on the cusp of a 'new' …
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WTO A4T Side Event: Harnessing trade facilitation for deeper regional integration: Experience from Asia and Africa
… and trade facilitation bottlenecks continue to dampen the viability of regional value chains. As tariffs are … non-tariff measures play an important role in shaping the outcome of regional trade agreements and contributing to … value and rate of utilization. Against this background, the side event brings together experts working in Asia and …
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4th BioTrade Congress
… UNCTAD is organizing the IV BioTrade Congress during the 2016 CBD Biodiversity and Business Forum (B&BF), which will take place in parallel to the Ministerial High Level Segment of the 13th Conference of …
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UNCTAD/UN-NGLS Dialogue Series: Revising Investment Treaties
… By 2013, the number of known Investor State Dispute Settlement cases reached 568, and the number of countries that have been respondents in at … their model International Investment Agreements (IIAs) . The goal is to reconcile two broad objectives – attracting …
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2012 Annual General Meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
… This is the 8th Annual General meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development. The Intergovernmental Forum is the institutional framework …
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Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, sixty-seventh session (communications and publications)
… Review of the implementation of the communications strategy and publications policy of UNCTAD The Trade and Development Board at its fifty-sixth session …
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Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, sixty-first session (Resumed)
… On behalf of Ms. Judith Arrieta, Chairperson of the Sixty-first session of the Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget, the UNCTAD …
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BioTrade, Access and Benefit-Sharing in support of the SDGs: Entering a new alliance for economic growth, innovation and biodiversity
… provide a critical analysis on how trade, and BioTrade and the ABS Mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol, can be incentives for the achievement of several SDGs, especially SDG 15 by …
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Non-Tariff Measures (Validation Workshop)
… UNCTAD, as a world leader in the area of NTM statistics, is expanding and consolidating the data collection in different regions with the cooperation from various partners. UNCTAD and ERIA …