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16 Apr 2025 - Global Economy under Pressure Could Slow to 2.3%, Signals UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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Geneva, Switzerland04 Apr 2025 - UN Trade and Development Alerts: the Poor and the Vulnerable Risk Being Overlooked in Escalating Trade Tensions
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Geneva, Switzerland17 Jan 2025 - Viet Nam to Host the 16th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in October 2025
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Geneva, Switzerland05 Dec 2024 - Global trade set to reach new high, with opportunities and challenges for developing economies in 2025
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The Weekly Tradecast
Copper: Essential to our move to clean energy – but at what cost?
It’s more than just a metal. It’s in our phones, our homes, our cars – quietly powering our daily lives. As demand increases for clean technologies, like solar panels and electric vehicles, copper is increasingly in the spotlight.
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UNCTAD Secretary-General
Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica is the first woman and Central American to serve as UNCTAD’s secretary-general.
Ms. Grynspan is a renowned advocate of human development, who has helped to focus the world’s attention on relevant issues such as the reduction of inequality and poverty, gender equality, South-South cooperation as a tool for development, and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, among others.
A former vice president of Costa Rica, Ms. Grynspan joins UNCTAD from the Ibero-American Conference where she also led the organization as secretary-general.
