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Boosting investment in productive capacities for trade: a call to action
15 Dec 2015
New UNCTAD Policy Brief focuses specifically on the need to boost investment in productive capacities for trade. It brings together some of the key messages and recommendations of the UNCTAD World Investment Reports, Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development and Economic Development in Africa Report 2014: Catalysing Investment for Transformative Growth in Africa.
International trade in services was main driver of growth in global trade in 2014
9 Dec 2015
UNCTAD's Handbook of Statistics 2015 reveals that global trade in services grew by 5 per cent as merchandise trade stagnates and foreign direct investment falls.
Impact of the Nagoya Protocol for BioTrade business and practitioners
25 Nov 2015
Experts discuss the practical implications of the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and its impact over certain aspects of BioTrade, at a peer review meeting in Geneva on 24 November 2015.
New BioTrade project to promote sustainable trade of products derived from biodiversity
25 Nov 2015
UNCTAD and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) launched today the 3rd phase of the BioTrade Facilitation Programme (BTFP III).
Civil society: UNCTAD has a role to play in mainstreaming sustainability criteria into freight transport systems
5 Nov 2015
Speakers from civil society shared their views on the key messages and takeaways from this year's Expert Meeting on Transport, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation, which focused on making freight transport more sustainable.
World Statistics Day 2015
19 Oct 2015
The General Assembly of the United Nations has designated October 20th, 2015 as 'World Statistics Day' to acknowledge the importance of reliable, timely and impartial statistics in supporting evidence informed policy. 
At Manila workshop, stakeholders ask how poor countries in Asia and the Pacific can put into place development-oriented trade policies
12 Oct 2015
UNCTAD and the Asian Development Bank held a workshop on integrating trade into national development strategies in Asia and the Pacific in Manila, the Philippines, from 1–2 October 2015
Growing international demand for BioTrade products: opportunities and challenges
8 Oct 2015
Market potential for BioTrade goods is estimated at 141 billion USD, but complex standards and other non-tariff barriers prevent many small producers from taking advantage of market opportunities.
Algeria prepares Trade Policy Framework with UNCTAD assistance
28 Sep 2015
Twenty representatives of the government, the private sector and academia in Algeria gathered at a consultative workshop organized by UNCTAD and the Algerian government in the capital Algiers on 16–17 September to form a new Trade Policy Framework for the country.
Comprehensive policies are needed to address 'growth paradox' in the world's poorest countries
28 Sep 2015
Weak productive capacities and a lack of structural economic transformation continue to accentuate the "growth paradox" seen in least developed countries in which growth has little or no impact on reducing poverty, UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board hears.
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