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UNCTAD services study tour sends Ugandan officials to South Africa
10 May 2013
Ugandan officials are visiting Pretoria, South Africa, from 6 to 10 May, to learn how to expand their nation’s services sector so that it boosts growth and makes the national economy less vulnerable to external shocks.
''BRICS'' summit reaffirms UNCTAD's role on trade, related issues
28 Mar 2013
Leaders of the "BRICS" nations - the emerging industrial powers Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa - reaffirmed UNCTAD's development work in the fields of trade, investment, finance, and technology.
UNCTAD in joint work on traceability system for snake skins
12 Mar 2013
UNCTAD and the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have held a roundtable meeting, with relevant experts, to prepare a platform for an international traceability system for snake skins.
Secretary-General visits Jamaica on fiftieth anniversary of country’s independence
14 Nov 2012
UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi has today completed a three-day visit to Jamaica, during which he met with the country’s Governor-General and Prime Minister, and addressed a symposium on foreign trade.
UNCTAD and UNITAR offer online course on the Trade Dimension in United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs)
30 Oct 2012
Some 130 representatives of governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities, and related institutions had signed up for the course as of 22 October.
Helping least developed countries to ''graduate''
21 Sep 2012
Improving the world's 48 poorest nations' productive capacities, thus enabling them to link effectively into the global economy, is vital for helping them to transcend the "LDC" category, experts told the Trade and Development Board.
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.
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.
Seminar on resolving, avoiding debt crises says global approaches are needed
14 Feb 2011
Possible mechanisms for coping with debt crises and preventing them from occurring need global scope and a careful balancing of issues related to sovereignty and the functioning of the international financial order, experts said at a seminar jointly sponsored by UNCTAD and Columbia University.
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