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UNCTAD, jointly with Government of Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists, organizes event titled Fifty Years of Development: What Have We Learned?
30 May 2013
At the sixth Astana Economic Forum and first World Anti-Crisis Conference, held on 23-24 May 2013 in Astana, Kazakhstan, UNCTAD and the Government of Kazakhstan, through the Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists, co-organized a lunch event titled Fifty Years of Development: What Have We Learned.
Forum on sustainability standards selects areas of work
27 Mar 2013
A new United Nations Forum on Voluntary Sustainability Standards, which has just been launched, will focus during its first years on the role to be played by governments in making voluntary sustainability standards work for public policy objectives while avoiding trade friction and exclusion.
Latest Global Investment Trends Monitor focuses on BRICS FDI and Africa
25 Mar 2013
Burgeoning foreign direct investment (FDI) into and out of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa -- collectively known as the BRICS - is mounting in global influence, the latest GITM reports, citing new figures.
Greater attention needed to farming sector, experts tell commodities meeting
20 Mar 2013
High prices for basic farm goods and industrial raw materials, with the complex effects that these cause on the economies of numerous poor countries, are not expected to decline any time soon, the Global Commodities Forum has been told.
Forum to discuss voluntary sustainability standards that increasingly affect developing-country exports
15 Mar 2013
The labelling of coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, fish, timber or flowers as "sustainable" under various voluntary certification programmes is among the key challenges facing agrofood-exporting developing countries that are to be discussed at a new United Nations Forum that debuts on 21 and 22 March.
Norway to audit debt on basis of UNCTAD principles
23 Aug 2012
The Minister of International Development of Norway, H.E. Mr. Heikki Holmås, announced last Friday that Norway would carry out an audit of developing countries’ debts to Norway, and a review of the loans that Norway has made, on the basis of the Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing consolidated by UNCTAD.
Second Draft of UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing
18 Nov 2011
During the first day of UNCTAD's 8th Debt Management Conference, held in Geneva from 14 to 18 November, UNCTAD released the second draft of the Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing. The new draft has emerged after a series of bilateral and high level regional governmental consultations and subsequent refinements introduced by the Expert Group established for that purpose.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Challenge for Global Ports
16 Nov 2011
Ad-Hoc Expert Meeting focuses on issues of key importance for sustainable transport and trade; a summary of discussions and main outcomes has now been published.
Climate change impacts on ports and trade: The need to adapt
20 Sep 2011
Ports are likely to be affected directly and indirectly by climate changes, such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events and rising temperatures. Climate change and its impact on ports will be the theme of the upcoming Expert Meeting that will take place from the 29th to the 30th of September.
South American countries support UNCTAD principles on responsible sovereign lending and borrowing
24 Aug 2011
The Secretary of Finance of Argentina, Hernan Lorenzino, and UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General, Petko Draganov, opened the first high-level regional consultative meeting for South American countries in Buenos Aires on 19 August. The purpose of the event was to assess the UNCTAD Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing, and their potential for future implementation.
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