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UNCTAD Secretary-General sets down roadmap for health, productivity, prosperity and fixing a fractured global economy scarred by the coronavirus pandemic ahead of its October 2021 quadrennial conference in Barbados.

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency wins special recognition for mainstreaming gender in investment promotion.

The COVID-19 economic crisis is forecast to reverse years of painstaking development progress in education and nutrition, and to pull 32 million people back into extreme poverty.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement comes at a time of major upheaval caused by COVID-19 and could help revive economic growth.

The biggest drops occurred in developed countries, cutting across all major forms of foreign direct investment.

While it is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, the Dominican Republic’s economy is still not diversified enough, a joint report shows, highlighting what needs to be done.

An UNCTAD study highlights opportunities for Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Turkmenistan to diversify their exports and transform their commodity-driven economies.

New UNCTAD report shows reshoring, diversification and regionalization will drive restructuring of global value chains in the coming years.

Lockdown measures and factory stoppages in the wake of COVID-19 have severely impacted supply chain and factories’ production in the region.

All industries on the continent are reeling from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and low commodity prices, UNCTAD’s new report says.