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Trading Places: The World in 2049
2 Apr 2019
Written by Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Trade Wars: The Pain and the Gain
4 Feb 2019
Amid tit for tat tariff hikes between the United States and China,, trade is being diverted and a handful of countries will capture a slice of the giants' exports, UNCTAD estimates.
Investing in new ventures must mean creating more and better jobs
26 Oct 2018
The world has 'lost the plot' over the link between jobs and socio-economic progress, and investors need to back pro-employment policies, experts told the World Investment Forum.
Securities regulators can boost sustainable finance, says new UN report
23 Oct 2018
Securities regulators covering one-third of global market capitalization make a new push for sustainable finance.
Oceans Forum seeks consensus on fish-to-dish solutions
16 Jul 2018
Time is running out to find agreement on ending harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020 but a multi-agency push hosted by UNCTAD aims to inject momentum.
90% of fish stocks are used up – fisheries subsidies must stop
13 Jul 2018
Written byMukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD and Peter Thomson, United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean, United Nations.
Nobody really wins a trade war
25 Apr 2018
Written by Alessandro Nicita, Economist at UNCTAD
Collective action is key to defending trade, Geneva Dialogue hears
19 Feb 2018
Challenges to the multilateral trading system can be met by collective institutions like UNCTAD defending trade's power to pull more people out of poverty.
UNCTAD Secretary-General at MC11: It’s time to re-energize the global trading system
11 Dec 2017
Mukhisa Kituyi tells delegates to the WTO’s ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires that multilateralism is essential for prosperity and sustainable development
Time is running out to find a solution to overfishing, UNCTAD warns
29 Sep 2017
With just 10 weeks until a World Trade Organization summit in Argentina, there is a risk that no global agreement will be made to address the issue of overfishing, an UNCTAD official has told a public meeting at the international body's Geneva base.
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