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How to launch Ethiopia's tech and innovation lift-off

How to launch Ethiopia's tech and innovation lift-off

22 Nov 2019
UNCTAD review shows how improved use of science, technology and innovation policies can build innovation capacity, upgrade technologies and accelerate Ethiopia's development process.
Ensuring frontier and space technologies bring development to all

Ensuring frontier and space technologies bring development to all

6 Nov 2019
Experts gather to tap into opportunities to use technology to accelerate progress towards the global goals, leaving no one behind.
UNCTAD and partners make progress on measuring illicit financial flows

UNCTAD and partners make progress on measuring illicit financial flows

31 Oct 2019
Quantifying the total value of illicit flows that are draining resources for development is a key step in tackling them.
5 ways you can use your buying power to protect our biodiversity

5 ways you can use your buying power to protect our biodiversity

3 Oct 2019
Biodiversity is our world. It's all around us. It's the air we breathe and the food we eat. A rich biodiversity helps the fight against the climate crisis.
Introducing the challenges of measuring Illicit Financial Flows to the International Statistical Community

Introducing the challenges of measuring Illicit Financial Flows to the International Statistical Community

2 Oct 2019
At the World Statistics Congress in Kuala Lumpur, UNCTAD held a session entitled “Multinational profit shifting and illicit financial flows – can we measure them?”.
Globalisation, automation and the history of work: Looking back to understand the future

Globalisation, automation and the history of work: Looking back to understand the future

16 May 2019
Written byRichard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at The Graduate Institute, Geneva and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU.org
Statisticians try to measure illicit financial flows

Statisticians try to measure illicit financial flows

7 Jan 2019
Statisticians have their eye on criminal supply chains and are collaborating to find ways to better map and measure illicit financial flows.