Skip to main content
MACHINE NAME = WEB 1
Welcome to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
English
Français
Español
Browse
New Branding Header
UNCTAD at 60
Global crisis
SDG costing
UNCTAD at 60
Global crisis
SDG costing
Toggle navigation
Main navigation
About
We help developing countries benefit from the global economy more fairly and effectively, providing data and analysis, facilitating consensus-building and offering technical assistance on issues related to trade and development.
Secretary-General
Rebeca Grynspan
Deputy Secretary-General
Pedro Manuel Moreno
UNCTAD15 outcome documents
Annual Report 2023
UNCTAD at a Glance
Accountability
Brand materials
History
Member States
Organigramme
Partnerships
Topics of work
Trade and Development Board
Statistics and data
We provide reliable and timely data and statistics to help countries better understand trade and development trends and design more effective economic, environmental and social policies.
Featured
UNCTADstat
Country profiles
Data centre
Nowcasts
In focus
Costs of achieving the SDGs
Handbook of Statistics
Pulse of the global cost-of-living crisis
Productive Capacities Index
SDG Pulse
World of Debt Dashboard
TRAINS Portal (trade regulations and non-tariff measures)
Publications
Our research and publications provide authoritative and evidence-based analysis on trade and development and policy recommendations to help countries tackle today’s biggest challenges.
Featured
Commodities and Development Report
Digital Economy Report
Economic Development in Africa Report
Handbook of Statistics
The Least Developed Countries Report
Review of Maritime Transport
Technology and Innovation Report
Trade and Development Report
World Investment Report
Publication search
In focus
Global Investment Trends Monitor
Global Trade Update
Policy briefs
Working Papers
UNCTAD Rapid Assessments
Meetings and events
Our meetings and events convene governments, businesses, civil society organizations, academia and international organizations to discuss and build consensus on the most pressing trade and development issues.
Featured
UNCTAD's 60th anniversary
UNCTAD15
Trade and Development Board
World Investment Forum
eWeek
UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
Calendar
Meetings search
Meeting series in focus
Expert meetings
Commissions
Investment, enterprise and development
Trade and development
Intergovernmental groups of experts
Competition law and policy
Consumer protection law and policy
E-commerce and the digital economy
Financing for development
International standards of accounting and reporting
Technical cooperation
Our technical cooperation helps developing countries better integrate into the global economy by transforming their economies, tackling vulnerabilities, improving competitiveness and empowering people.
Featured programmes
Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA)
Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS)
In focus
Impact stories
Map of UN Development Account projects
Project requests
Sources of funding
Technical assistance toolbox
Media centre
For registered journalists
Newsroom
(password required)
Latest
Brand materials
News
Press releases
Secretary-General statements
The Weekly Tradecast episodes
Videos
Main navigation right
Delegate
Log in
Home
News
African Continental Free Trade Area
Displaying results 61 - 70 of 76
Operator
Contains all of these words
Contains any of these words
Contains none of these words
Search
Comprehensive policies are needed to address 'growth paradox' in the world's poorest countries
28 Sep 2015
Weak productive capacities and a lack of structural economic transformation continue to accentuate the "growth paradox" seen in least developed countries in which growth has little or no impact on reducing poverty, UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board hears.
Organic agriculture and tourism can help tackle poverty, new UNCTAD report says
25 Sep 2015
Linking organic agriculture and tourism has a significant potential to help reduce poverty in the United Republic of Tanzania, a new UNCTAD report has found.
UNCTAD Secretary-General proposes four 'action lines' to help end poverty and meet new development goals
14 Sep 2015
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi unveils his report to the fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIV) — the first United Nations ministerial conference of the post-2015 era.
UNCTAD opens first regional office in Africa to 'Make Trade Work' for the continent
23 Jul 2015
To directly deliver on-the-spot authoritative advice on trade and development issues to policymakers and all stakeholders in Africa, UNCTAD has opened a regional office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Opening of UNCTAD regional office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1 Jul 2015
UNCTAD has opened a regional office to directly serve its African Member States and provide high-level technical expertise and advisory services to African countries and regional organizations.
Trade, poverty reduction and protecting the environment go hand in hand, says UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General
29 Apr 2015
Joakim Reiter discussed the links between trade and environmental policies for sustainable development at a gathering of international leaders to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on 28 April.
Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz backs UNCTAD's work on debt workouts
10 Apr 2015
A workshop on a multilateral legal framework for debt restructuring processes took place on March 31st 2015, at Columbia University in New York City.
Putting trade at the heart of poverty-reduction policies in Africa
10 Apr 2015
Sixty policy makers from 15 least developed countries in Africa came together to discuss mainstreaming trade into national policies aimed at reducing poverty.
Economic vicious circle trapping the world's poorest countries must be reversed if new development goals are to be met
27 Nov 2014
UNCTAD's Least Developed Countries Report 2014 says that the international community must learn from the failure of most of the poorest countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) despite registering strong economic growth - a phenomenon the Report dubs the "LDC paradox".
Impact of trade policy on poverty examined in new UNCTAD book
1 Sep 2014
A novel collaborative approach between academics and policymakers examines the impact of trade policy on poor people in eight developing and transition countries in a new book published by the UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi).
Pagination
« First
First page
‹‹
Previous page
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
››
Next page
Last »
Last page