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Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, 66th session - Item 1: Opening address & Item 4: Annual Report of the Secretary-General
… and environmental dimensions, the unequal division of our world into pockets of poverty and of plenty remains a major … behind than four years ago in making trade, finance, investment and technology work for development. Amidst … slow-down in FDI flows. The 2019 World Investment Report released just two weeks ago, documents that global FDI …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Summit of the Future Action Days: A Sustainable Future for All - Addressing debt challenges for Sustainable Development
… to oversee the repayment schedule of German debts after World War II. There, the delegates to that meeting – many of … with memory of the Versailles agreements after the First World War – took a momentous decision. They decided, that to … Except for China, interest payment outweighs climate investment in developing countries. Your Excellencies, …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
G20 Development Ministers Meeting - Session I: WASH
… for different uses more intense. In our Digital Economic Report, for example, we show that digital economy, though … has real impacts on real communities around the world. My second point is that we see a very worrying trend in terms of investment. Our recent World Investment Report showed that …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
G20 3rd Finance Minister and Central Banks Meeting - Session IV: Climate finance
… me to just add one quick point. According to our latest World Investment Report, the sustainable finance market is reaching a new …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
UNCTAD Trade and Development Commission, fourteenth session
… Most of these commodities are present in the developing world, and especially in Africa, home to 48% of the world’s … According to our latest Economic Development in Africa Report, and our LDC report, both released last year, this … to exchange some of these practices. In our latest World Investment Report , we formulated recommendations for a …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
G20 3rd Finance Minister and Central Banks Meeting - Session V: Capital flows, global debt and MDBs reform
… burdens are suffocating the fiscal space of the developing world, hurting development and the basic needs of their … twice as much as the Continent receives in foreign direct investment or ODA. Resources are going the wrong way, at the … the needs. What we heard today from the President of the World Bank and from IDB in terms of increased coordination …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, 74th executive session (opening session)
… Last month at the Working Party I gave a full briefing; a report of that meeting is also one of the agenda items of … reports that are being presented in this TDB – namely, the World Investment Report, the Economic Development in Africa Report, …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
UN-ESCAP Committee on Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty, Reduction, and Financing for Development
… a set of targets. They are our last common agenda in a world that is more polarized than ever, a world in desperate … by many challenges, including sluggish growth, weak investment, and trade slowdown. Continuing inflation, rising … Regional Economic Commissions, in the production of a UNSG report: The World of Debt. Our report showed that, due to …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development event: The role of business and the financial sector in financing a sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19
… crisis has caused a dramatic fall in foreign direct investment in 2020, with global FDI flows dropping by 35 per … and all people can benefit. Our recently released World Investment Report provides a policy framework on how to achieve such …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
G20 Trade Ministers Meeting
… Delivered on behalf of the Investment Working Group (UNCTAD, OECD, World Bank, WTO) We thank the Chinese Presidency for … policy coherence. UNCTAD’s latest World Investment Report, launched only two weeks ago, shows again the extent …