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Gendered stats ensure everyone counts
… and Statistics for Gender-responsive Trade Policy at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum in October. The … Co-operation and Development (OECD), Facebook and the World Bank showed. Gendered data trends Improving data and …
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How maritime transport can boost national economies towards a global recovery from COVID-19
… growth, will be more important than ever. The downturn in world trade and the global economy has been a major side … to recover from the effects of the pandemic. A recent WTO report found that US$1.7 trillion of world imports have been affected by constraints like these …
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Paperless Trade Facilitation in 2019: Global and Asia-Pacific State of Play
… – which includes some of the poorest countries in the world – is only 47.8%, second only to the Pacific Islands. … Source: Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation: Global Report 2019, United Nations (2019); untfsurvey.org At the … (Chief, Trade Policy and Facilitation Section), Trade Investment and Innovation Division, UN ESCAP duvaly@un.org …
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How ports in Africa and Asia are tackling common challenges
… UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said. An UNCTAD report presented on 24 November spotlights case studies on … aspect of how their port is managed,” she said. Return on investment The TrainForTrade programme coaches mid-level … from its experts to other managers in ports across the world. “It also helps create a culture within the port that …
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Pooling together knowledge and data for more sustainable maritime transport
… fresh food delivery globally. For example, India, the world's biggest rice exporter, suspended its exports due to … a better future. The reality is that many ports around the world are performing poorly: limitations in spatial and … in goods and services, economic trends, foreign direct investment, maritime transport, and transport costs. But …
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Burkina Faso, Senegal and Togo look hard at e-commerce opportunities
… and implement its flagship recommendations,” Senegal’s investment, partnerships and teleservices minister Khoudia … of whom will participate in the Ouagadougou workshop: the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the United … Commission for Africa, the International Trade Centre, the World Trade Organization, Universal Postal Union, and the …
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How Experts in Shipping Perceive the Mid-term Future - Three Schools of Thought
… sector is responsible for moving approximately 80% of the world's goods by volume, coordinated decision-making is … In the first survey, the experts were asked to report what they thought will be the three greatest … management Seafarers’ working conditions Human capital investment Trade sustainability Supply chain resilience …
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Risk to trade if ports not climate change proofed
… Transformation is needed if the world trade system is to cope with the projected impacts of … point is likely to be reached, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … in a scientific journal and informed the IPCC 1.5 degrees report. … OSG … Risk to trade if ports not climate change …
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Social activism needed to rein in tech’s destructive elements
… the tech agenda UNCTAD’s new Technology and Innovation Report 2021 outlines five ways in which vigorous social … for the roles that they play in steering the development, investment and dissemination of frontier technologies. This …
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How artificial intelligence chatbots could affect jobs
… ready to compete for more skill-intensive jobs around the world as “ telemigrants ” in jobs such as accountants, legal … is that these jobs will be taken by the ChatGPTs of the world. Moreover, most firms and workers in developing …