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Tuvalu lays e-commerce groundwork to spur development
13 Dec 2019
UNCTAD's assessment identifies available opportunities and barriers to overcome for e-commerce to flourish in the country.
UNCTAD maritime connectivity indicators: review, critique and proposal
10 Dec 2019
Written by: Patrick Niérat and David GuerreroArticle No. 42 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°84 - Fourth Quarter 2019]
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.
UNCTAD kicks off eTrade for Women masterclass series
25 Oct 2019
The first course will be held in Skopje, North Macedonia, and led by finance minister and Grouper.mk co-founder Nina Angelovska.
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?”.
Global efforts needed to spread digital economy benefits, UN report says
4 Sep 2019
Digital wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few US- and China-based platforms. The gap between the under-connected and the hyper-digitalized countries will widen and worsen inequalities if unaddressed, says new UN report.
Container ports: the fastest, the busiest, and the best connected
7 Aug 2019
By Hassiba Benamara, Jan Hoffmann, Luisa Rodriguez and Frida Youssef, Trade Logistics Branch, UNCTAD
Shanghai tops ranking of world's best-connected ports
7 Aug 2019
UNCTAD releases new datasets measuring liner shipping connectivity, port calls and turnaround time in the world's container ports.
Illicit trade endangers the environment, the law and the SDGs. We need a global response
18 Jul 2019
Written by Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD and Jeffrey Hardy, Director-General, Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade
Midiendo la conectividad portuaria para mejorar competitividad: el Indice de Conectividad Portuaria de Valenciaport
17 Jun 2019
Escrito por: Amparo Mestre Alcover Article No. 37 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°82 - Second Quarter 2019]
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