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The alliance’s founding members represent 7,000 special economic zones in 145 economies, employing over 100 million people.

Digital multinational enterprises are growing at breakneck speed and changing the nature of cross-border investment.

Digital technologies are fuelling the climate crisis. Only drastic behaviour change will make them work for people and the planet, experts say at UNCTAD's eCommerce Week.

A new UNCTAD report provides policy options for developing countries to harness new technological trends for their creative economies.

The world’s poorest nations face many obstacles, including soaring debt, export marginalization, energy poverty and climate vulnerability.

The tool helps governments and businesses understand how exports are hurting the local environment, so they can better align environmental, trade and industrial policies.

UNCTAD’s rapid assessment of the war’s impact on trade and development shows a rapidly worsening outlook for the world economy, with the situation especially alarming for African and least developed countries.

Written by: Yann Duval, Sangwon Lim and Mahezabin Natasha, Article No. 84 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°93 - First Quarter 2022]

By Henrique Pacini and Kweku Attafuah-Wadee, UNCTAD Economists

UNCTAD’s Empretec entrepreneurship programme has helped him formalize and grow his businesses, contributing to sustainable development in the country’s northern provinces.