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Seychelles outlines strategy to boost entrepreneurship

Seychelles outlines strategy to boost entrepreneurship

The East African island nation has launched a blueprint to equip entrepreneurs with the skills needed to build a knowledge-based and innovation-driven economy.

Promoting sustainable trade as a safety net for marine wildlife

Promoting sustainable trade as a safety net for marine wildlife

UNCTAD and its partners promote trade in line with environmental, social and economic sustainability criteria as a nature-based solution to the biodiversity crisis.

Pacific Islands Forum joins UNCTAD-led eTrade for all initiative

Pacific Islands Forum joins UNCTAD-led eTrade for all initiative

The collaboration will help boost e-commerce in small island developing states by improving digital economy knowledge and capacity.

Fostering the digital economy in small island developing states

Fostering the digital economy in small island developing states

The application of digital technologies in international trade can contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.

How marine bioprospecting can spur development in small island states

How marine bioprospecting can spur development in small island states

By Paul Akiwumi, Director for Africa and Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD

UNCTAD15: Building resilience key to prosperity for all in post-COVID-19 world

UNCTAD15: Building resilience key to prosperity for all in post-COVID-19 world

Productive transformation must be inclusive and sustainable to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid a “lost decade” of development.

UNCTAD15: An urgent call for action to avoid global failure

UNCTAD15: An urgent call for action to avoid global failure

World leaders say inaction over the climate crisis, COVID-19 and the plight of the world’s most vulnerable is at our own peril. Action must incorporate trade’s best aspects.

We urgently need to kickstart tourism’s recovery but COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to rethink it

We urgently need to kickstart tourism’s recovery but COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to rethink it

By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General, UNCTAD

Foreign investment flows to structurally weak economies remain fragile in 2020

Foreign investment flows to structurally weak economies remain fragile in 2020

Foreign direct investment remains stable in least developed countries, but contracts severely in landlocked developing nations and small island developing states.

Small island developing states face uphill battle in COVID-19 recovery

Small island developing states face uphill battle in COVID-19 recovery

An UNCTAD report analyses this group of vulnerable nations in the wake of the pandemic, which is estimated to have led to a dramatic fall in their GDPs, especially in those that depend highly on tourism.