COVID-19 response and recovery

By Paul Akiwumi, Director for Africa and Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD and Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, Enhanced Integrated Framework

New report shows how UNCTAD’s customs automation programme, ASYCUDA, helps developing nations increase customs revenues while reducing the time and cost of trade.

UNCTAD launches new tools to help build maritime supply chain resilience by supporting countries to cope with and adapt to disruptions that extend beyond pandemics.

Youth advocacy is on the rise, turbocharging a generational movement to fight the existential threat of climate change.

UNCTAD brings together competition authorities to discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to support the recovery of small businesses.

Consumers are targeted by new types of scams and fraud as digitalization and innovations in the financial markets boom.

Renewed partnership will help governments in the region produce and publish reliable, comprehensive and timely debt information.

But the positive trend for international trade may soon come to an end amid tightening policies and geopolitical frictions.

The site improves the utility and accessibility of UNCTAD’s nowcasts for the international community.

UNCTAD reflects on the past two years of the pandemic to derive valuable lessons for the future.