Small Island Developing States

Targeted policy strategies and closer cooperation with other developing countries are essential to boosting the country’s resilience to economic shocks.

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.

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

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

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.