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By Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD

The latest data for 2020 show growing reliance on digital technologies, boosting international trade of computers and related equipment and reversing falls seen in 2019.

Botswana gears up to diversify its economy by moving from mining minerals to mining knowledge.

Good policy choices and actions will make the difference in steering technological change towards economic recovery and development outcomes that leave no one behind.

A new approach is needed for countries to better harness data as a global public good.

Large power imbalances stalk the growing digital economy as major platforms reinforce their positions in the global data value chain.

The Global Commodities Forum 2021 tackles the many facets of commodity dependence and the vulnerabilities of countries whose economies rely on primary goods exports.

Heavy dependence on commodities has increased globally, leaving about two-thirds of developing countries vulnerable to economic shocks such as sharp commodity price fluctuations.

Entrepreneurship can mean more freedom for women according to the first Latin-American advocate of eTrade for All, an initiative developed by UNCTAD to expand and promote the digital economy, especially in low and middle-income countries.

Between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and mid-2021, commodity prices increased across the region, with varied impacts on countries.