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ICT services grew to almost 14% of total services’ exports worldwide in 2020, while the long-term upward trend in digitally deliverable services trade rapidly accelerated.

Good policy choices and actions will make the difference in steering technological change towards economic recovery and development outcomes that leave no one behind.

Barbados, Belize and Costa Rica are looking beyond the pandemic and climate shocks by developing and implementing national trade strategies strongly linked to resilience, conservation and the sustainable use of their marine resources.

A new approach is needed for countries to better harness data as a global public good.

Large power imbalances stalk the growing digital economy as major platforms reinforce their positions in the global data value chain.

The funds will support activities that can enable more countries to engage in and benefit from the evolving digital economy.

They will work with other stakeholders to create a conducive market environment for digital innovations to thrive in the region, leaving no one behind in the process.

With about 75% of all the plastic ever produced becoming waste, countries are exploring how to use trade and development policies and negotiations in the fight against plastic pollution.

New study shows how to transform the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement into an enabler of sustainable trade in biodiversity as a key driver of an environmentally friendly recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Entrepreneurship can mean more freedom for women according to the first Latin-American advocate of eTrade for All, an initiative developed by UNCTAD to expand and promote the digital economy, especially in low and middle-income countries.