BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4cdcee338da DTSTART:20160125T020000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20160125T020000Z LOCATION:\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Trade and Development Board\, 62nd executive session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:POSTPONEMENT\n\nAs was decided at the twenty-ninth special sess ion of the Trade and Development Board\, held on Thursday\, 26 November 20 15\, the UNCTAD secretariat has the honour to inform member States and org anizations concerned that the sixty-second executive session of the Trade and Development Board scheduled for 9–11 December 2015 will now be held on from 25–27 January 2016.\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 2015 : Transforming Rural Economies\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 201 5: Transforming Rural Economies will be presented to the Trade and Develop ment Board.\n\nThis year the Report discusses the structural transformatio n of rural economies in least developed countries\, highlighting its criti cal importance to the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals.\n\n It concludes that such transformation should encompass agricultural upgrad ing and diversification towards rural non-farm activities to maximize the synergies between the two. Furthermore\, it should foster an increase in r ural demand while strengthening supply response.\n\nThe Report highlights the potential of the infrastructure investment that is needed for achievem ent of the Goals to generate increased rural demand. It also stresses the importance of appropriate sequencing and design\, including labour-based c onstruction methods and local procurement\, to maximize its transformation al effect. It concludes by outlining policies for rural structural transfo rmation in the areas of finance\, agricultural technology\, enterprise and innovation\, human resources and institutions.\n\nIt also emphasizes the need for the international community\, having adopted the Sustainable Deve lopment Goals\, to show the necessary political will in providing the mean s necessary to their fulfilment\, including providing least developed coun tries with a level of official development assistance commensurate with th e major challenges they face in achieving the Goals.\n\n \n\nTrade and De velopment Report\, 2015: Making the International Financial Architecture W ork for Development\n\nDeliberations by the Trade and Development Board un der this agenda item will provide an opportunity to review some of the cri tical issues to be addressed in order to establish a more stable and inclu sive international monetary and financial system that can support the deve lopment challenges over the coming years. The Board will consider existing shortcomings\, analyse emerging vulnerabilities and examine proposals and initiatives for reform.\n\nAs background documentation for the Board’s deliberations\, chapters III to VI of the Trade and Development Report\, 2 015 point to limitations in the functioning of the international monetary and financial system\, which ideally should be able to properly regulate i nternational liquidity\, avoid large and lasting imbalances and allow for countercyclical policies. However\, international liquidity and capital mo vements tend to respond to economic conditions in developed countries rath er than to actual needs in developing countries.\n\nThe Report also looks at the role of large international banks and financial intermediaries\, wh ose activities have increased much faster than the capacity of any public institution\, either national or multilateral\, to regulate it effectively . It shows that recent initiatives aiming at better regulation remain timi d and narrow.\n\nThis dysfunctional regime can prevent neither boom-and-bu st episodes nor recurrent debt crises. When such crises occur\, it leads t o asymmetric adjustment that places most of the burden on debtor countries and exacerbates a procyclical bias.\n\nThere is a need to provide a mecha nism for debt resolution\, particularly sovereign external debt\, which mi nimizes the cost of the crisis\, shares it fairly among the different play ers and restores growth and debt sustainability.\n\nFinally\, the Report e xamines major issues in the provision of long-term finance for development \, for which specialized public institutions and mechanisms are crucial.\n <\;p class="\;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps ://unctad.org/meeting/trade-and-development-board-62nd-executive-session DTSTAMP:20260707T110310Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4cdcee33928 DTSTART:20160126T020000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20160126T020000Z LOCATION:\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Trade and Development Board\, 62nd executive session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:POSTPONEMENT\n\nAs was decided at the twenty-ninth special sess ion of the Trade and Development Board\, held on Thursday\, 26 November 20 15\, the UNCTAD secretariat has the honour to inform member States and org anizations concerned that the sixty-second executive session of the Trade and Development Board scheduled for 9–11 December 2015 will now be held on from 25–27 January 2016.\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 2015 : Transforming Rural Economies\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 201 5: Transforming Rural Economies will be presented to the Trade and Develop ment Board.\n\nThis year the Report discusses the structural transformatio n of rural economies in least developed countries\, highlighting its criti cal importance to the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals.\n\n It concludes that such transformation should encompass agricultural upgrad ing and diversification towards rural non-farm activities to maximize the synergies between the two. Furthermore\, it should foster an increase in r ural demand while strengthening supply response.\n\nThe Report highlights the potential of the infrastructure investment that is needed for achievem ent of the Goals to generate increased rural demand. It also stresses the importance of appropriate sequencing and design\, including labour-based c onstruction methods and local procurement\, to maximize its transformation al effect. It concludes by outlining policies for rural structural transfo rmation in the areas of finance\, agricultural technology\, enterprise and innovation\, human resources and institutions.\n\nIt also emphasizes the need for the international community\, having adopted the Sustainable Deve lopment Goals\, to show the necessary political will in providing the mean s necessary to their fulfilment\, including providing least developed coun tries with a level of official development assistance commensurate with th e major challenges they face in achieving the Goals.\n\n \n\nTrade and De velopment Report\, 2015: Making the International Financial Architecture W ork for Development\n\nDeliberations by the Trade and Development Board un der this agenda item will provide an opportunity to review some of the cri tical issues to be addressed in order to establish a more stable and inclu sive international monetary and financial system that can support the deve lopment challenges over the coming years. The Board will consider existing shortcomings\, analyse emerging vulnerabilities and examine proposals and initiatives for reform.\n\nAs background documentation for the Board’s deliberations\, chapters III to VI of the Trade and Development Report\, 2 015 point to limitations in the functioning of the international monetary and financial system\, which ideally should be able to properly regulate i nternational liquidity\, avoid large and lasting imbalances and allow for countercyclical policies. However\, international liquidity and capital mo vements tend to respond to economic conditions in developed countries rath er than to actual needs in developing countries.\n\nThe Report also looks at the role of large international banks and financial intermediaries\, wh ose activities have increased much faster than the capacity of any public institution\, either national or multilateral\, to regulate it effectively . It shows that recent initiatives aiming at better regulation remain timi d and narrow.\n\nThis dysfunctional regime can prevent neither boom-and-bu st episodes nor recurrent debt crises. When such crises occur\, it leads t o asymmetric adjustment that places most of the burden on debtor countries and exacerbates a procyclical bias.\n\nThere is a need to provide a mecha nism for debt resolution\, particularly sovereign external debt\, which mi nimizes the cost of the crisis\, shares it fairly among the different play ers and restores growth and debt sustainability.\n\nFinally\, the Report e xamines major issues in the provision of long-term finance for development \, for which specialized public institutions and mechanisms are crucial.\n <\;p class="\;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps ://unctad.org/meeting/trade-and-development-board-62nd-executive-session DTSTAMP:20260707T110310Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4cdcee33931 DTSTART:20160127T020000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20160127T020000Z LOCATION:\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Trade and Development Board\, 62nd executive session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:POSTPONEMENT\n\nAs was decided at the twenty-ninth special sess ion of the Trade and Development Board\, held on Thursday\, 26 November 20 15\, the UNCTAD secretariat has the honour to inform member States and org anizations concerned that the sixty-second executive session of the Trade and Development Board scheduled for 9–11 December 2015 will now be held on from 25–27 January 2016.\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 2015 : Transforming Rural Economies\n\nThe Least Developed Countries Report 201 5: Transforming Rural Economies will be presented to the Trade and Develop ment Board.\n\nThis year the Report discusses the structural transformatio n of rural economies in least developed countries\, highlighting its criti cal importance to the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals.\n\n It concludes that such transformation should encompass agricultural upgrad ing and diversification towards rural non-farm activities to maximize the synergies between the two. Furthermore\, it should foster an increase in r ural demand while strengthening supply response.\n\nThe Report highlights the potential of the infrastructure investment that is needed for achievem ent of the Goals to generate increased rural demand. It also stresses the importance of appropriate sequencing and design\, including labour-based c onstruction methods and local procurement\, to maximize its transformation al effect. It concludes by outlining policies for rural structural transfo rmation in the areas of finance\, agricultural technology\, enterprise and innovation\, human resources and institutions.\n\nIt also emphasizes the need for the international community\, having adopted the Sustainable Deve lopment Goals\, to show the necessary political will in providing the mean s necessary to their fulfilment\, including providing least developed coun tries with a level of official development assistance commensurate with th e major challenges they face in achieving the Goals.\n\n \n\nTrade and De velopment Report\, 2015: Making the International Financial Architecture W ork for Development\n\nDeliberations by the Trade and Development Board un der this agenda item will provide an opportunity to review some of the cri tical issues to be addressed in order to establish a more stable and inclu sive international monetary and financial system that can support the deve lopment challenges over the coming years. The Board will consider existing shortcomings\, analyse emerging vulnerabilities and examine proposals and initiatives for reform.\n\nAs background documentation for the Board’s deliberations\, chapters III to VI of the Trade and Development Report\, 2 015 point to limitations in the functioning of the international monetary and financial system\, which ideally should be able to properly regulate i nternational liquidity\, avoid large and lasting imbalances and allow for countercyclical policies. However\, international liquidity and capital mo vements tend to respond to economic conditions in developed countries rath er than to actual needs in developing countries.\n\nThe Report also looks at the role of large international banks and financial intermediaries\, wh ose activities have increased much faster than the capacity of any public institution\, either national or multilateral\, to regulate it effectively . It shows that recent initiatives aiming at better regulation remain timi d and narrow.\n\nThis dysfunctional regime can prevent neither boom-and-bu st episodes nor recurrent debt crises. When such crises occur\, it leads t o asymmetric adjustment that places most of the burden on debtor countries and exacerbates a procyclical bias.\n\nThere is a need to provide a mecha nism for debt resolution\, particularly sovereign external debt\, which mi nimizes the cost of the crisis\, shares it fairly among the different play ers and restores growth and debt sustainability.\n\nFinally\, the Report e xamines major issues in the provision of long-term finance for development \, for which specialized public institutions and mechanisms are crucial.\n <\;p class="\;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps ://unctad.org/meeting/trade-and-development-board-62nd-executive-session DTSTAMP:20260707T110310Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR