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

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

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

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.

By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General, UNCTAD

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

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.

By Rachid Bouhia, Economist, UNCTAD, and Emily Wilkinson, Researcher, ODI

By Dona Bertarelli, UNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy

By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General of UNCTAD