Global Economic Governance

At Global Leaders Forum, Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan highlights the organization’s new, forward-looking agenda and renewed commitment to developing countries in an increasingly multipolar global economy.

Commemorating 60 years of impact: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) convenes world leaders to shape a vision for inclusive prosperity in a complex global landscape.

Global policy coordination remains key to safeguarding the world economy amid shifting trade patterns, soaring debt, and the climate crisis hitting developing countries hard.

In Brazil, Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan renews calls for global financial system reforms to ensure a more sustainable and inclusive future for all nations.

The Forum, “Charting a new development course in a changing world”, will unite leaders from across countries and industries to catalyze a new course for development.

The Trade and Development Report 2023 projects world economic growth to slow from 3% in 2022 to 2.4% in 2023, calling for global financial reforms and more pragmatic policies to tackle pressing challenges.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 maintains that it is public banking that does the heavy lifting and hence public banking should be better supported for the future.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 recasts the Depression era's signature policy on a global scale - a Global Green New Deal - as the right policy framework to make a clean break with years of austerity and insecurity. It would help bring about a more equal distribution of income and reverse decades of environmental degradation.

The 64th session of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board is underway, and Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi has used the occasion to spotlight how the organization and its members are facing up to the challenging global environment.

If rich countries had consistently met the 0.7 per cent target since 2002, then developing countries would have been $2 trillion better off.