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Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Productive Capacity-building and Sustainable Development, tenth session
… Ladies and gentlemen, The cascading crisis gripping the world threaten the hard-won development gains and challenge … be proactive in boosting technical skills and scaling up investment in research and development and infrastructure. … Ladies and gentlemen, The Global Sustainable Development Report launched two weeks ago ahead of the SDGs Summit had a …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Launch of UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report 2020
… capacities – which is the theme of this year’s LDC Report –has been too slow in most LDCs to overcome their … policies to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 crisis; an investment push to redress long-standing infrastructural gaps … January 2022 in Qatar. In our interdependent post-pandemic world, UNCTAD’s call for strengthening the global partnership …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Productive Capacity-building and Sustainable Development, ninth session
… to the 9th session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Productive … . This meeting comes at very important time for the world, in the context of major cost-of-living crisis that is … urgency. In this year’s editions of our World Investment Report, we are including a new dedicated section on climate …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Launch of the Report of the Secretary-General to the UNCTAD 15 Conference
… Board Informal PrepCom I am pleased to share my report to UNCTAD 15 with you today with the hopes that it can … Trade and Development in a Fractured, Post-Pandemic World , I lay out what I see are deep and widening fractures … for example could play an important role channeling green investment towards renewable energy generation, clean …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (32nd session)
… and harmonization of accounting and reporting around the world. We gather here today in the wake of highly … States this July recognized the enormity of resources and investment needed to attain the SDG ambition. Next month, … foundation. This includes audit and assurance. In today's world, lenders, investors and other stakeholders place a …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
IATF-FFD principals meeting on the 2021 FFD report on financing the COVID-19 response
… countries. Latest UNCTAD estimates show that the world economy is on track for a loss of $6 trillion in world income in 2020. Dramatic declines in trade, investment, and remittances have choked off external … of the new normal. It is my hope that the IATF through its report and through the deliberations of the ECOSOC FFD Forum …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, 74th executive session - Item 6: Report on UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people
… on me to present to you the main findings of our latest Report on UNCTAD’s Assistance to the Palestinian People. Mr. … sea, and air closure, severely impacting its economy. Investment in Gaza’s GDP has plummeted, and its share in the … in one of the most densely populated spaces in the world, without electricity half the time, and without …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, 60th Session - Item 9: Investment for Sustainable Development: Global Value Chains and Development
… and Development Board, which is devoted to the topic of investment for sustainable development, one of UNCTAD's core … chains - GVCs - for sustainable development, taking the World Investment Report 2013 (WIR) as its substantive reference. Distinguished …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, seventy-first session: Opening plenary
… trade, debt distress, growth deceleration, and declining investment. We can summarize this situation, as I said in a … promises.” According to UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report updated in April, global growth for 2024 is projected … than on health or education, according to our June World in Debt report. We are also concerned that much of the …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, 67th Executive Session - Item 2: The Least Developed Countries Report 2018
… Today we face a somber international environment. The world economy is slowing. A lingering trade war is stripping … blended finance, public-private partnership and impact investment are on many lips, yet these solutions barely … the analysis behind The Least Developed Countries Report 2018 , which you will discuss today. Subtitled: …