News
Fair trade movement and UNCTAD join forces
… consumers increasingly speak up with their purchases. Global sales of fair trade certified goods - such as coffee, … a fair and equitable distribution of benefits among value chain actors, especially workers, artisans, smallholder … UNCTAD will contribute to more fairness in global supply chains and a proliferation of fair trade enterprises" Mr. …
Official Document
Issues Paper on Digital Development [Draft]
Related content: Commission on Science and Technology for Development, 2014-2015 Inter-sessional Panel
… media racing certainty: 2014 North America Europe 27% global social network users, 54% Asia (including Oceania), … America, 8% Middle East Africa, growth rates faster global South global North1. CSTD 2013-14 inter-sessional period, …
Official Document
ARTICLE 2: How can academic-policy collaboration be more effective? A stewardship approach to engaged scholarship in the case of SME internationalization by Margaret Fletcher, Pavlos Dimitratos and Stephen Young
Related content: Transnational Corporations Volume 25, 2018, Number 1
… Small Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Scotland, Global Companies Development Programme (GCDP). study … Key words: Engaged Scholarship, Stewardship Theory, Global Companies Development Programme, Small Medium-Sized … Small Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Scotland, Global Companies Development Programme (GCDP) rendered …
Publication
Economic Development in Africa Report 2015
… to boost services trade and become better integrated in global value chains. The report makes specific and actionable policy …
Official Document
ASEAN Investment Report 2015: 81 Infrastructure investment and connectivity by UNCTAD
Related content: Transnational Corporations (Vol. 23, No.2)
… year, $117.7 billion 2013 $136.2 billion 2014, 16% decline global flows (figure 1). level exceeded inflows China time … strengthening regional production networks regional chains – boosting connectivity CLMV countries ASEAN Member … 94 Transnational Corporations, Vol. 23, . 2 INFRASTRUCTURE VALUE CHAINS AND MOTIVATIONS OF MNES IN ASEAN Infrastructure …
Meeting
MITI/UNCTAD Validation Workshop on National E-commerce Strategy for Botswana
… innovations in business and consumer markets, global value chains and international trade, e-commerce has been …
News
Mauritius unveils plan to expand its industrial output
… island nation’s development trajectory in the challenging global environment shaped by the COVID-19 emergency. The … in six areas: industry foundations, upgrading of value chains, increased domestic market supply, regional and global …
Official Document
Introduction and Chapter III
… ground home countries Developed-country TNCs account bulk global FDI. , review data sources shows increased significant … full assessment position developing transition economies global FDI (box III.1), data FDI economies rise. FDI … (chapter IV). share developing transition economies global outward FDI fluctuated 4% high 18% (figure III.1). …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Launch of the Report of the Secretary-General to the UNCTAD 15 Conference
… lay out what I see are deep and widening fractures in our global approach to economic prosperity, which have been … trends towards shorter, more regional and more resilient value chains. It has also shown the limits of “go it alone” …
Press Material
Rapid urbanization demands investment in sustainable development of cities, meeting told
… another three billion people, so that 70 per cent of the global population will live in urban areas, Mr. Draganov … He added that, while cities account for 80 per cent of global GDP, they also generate the bulk of global carbon … She said that cities need to optimize the whole value chain of electricity delivery – more than 70 per cent …