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UNCTAD holds sensitization workshop on Cambodia's prospects for graduation from LDC status
… economic transformation - including diversification, value addition and employment creation. Hence, graduation is … of Cambodia's participation in regional and global value chains, and of efforts to benefit from trade and investment …
Official Document
TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (Vol.7, No.3)
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… cultural impacts transnational corporations increasingly global economy policy implications arise therefrom. focuses … Mergers acquititions means restructuring repositioning global market: business, macro- economic political aspects … – sizeable – included Eurest, Libby’ preserves, hotel chains, manufacturing packaging materials activities line, …
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When it rains it pours: COVID-19 exacerbates poverty risks in the poorest countries
… continues to rise in Africa and Southern Asia, and the global economy enters a synchronized recession unseen since … disruptions to domestic and regional food and agricultural value chains. With the immediate socio-economic effects of the …
Press Material
Swiss Philanthropist Dona Bertarelli Named UNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy
… as with local communities on the other will add immense value to UNCTAD’s work on the blue economy. Why a sustainable … food and energy security, while advancing progress towards Global Goal 14, which seeks to preserve all life below water. … entails ensuring sustainable biodiversity-based value chains, products and services in ocean-based sectors that …
Official Document
Who is benefiting from trade liberalization in Rwanda? A gender perspective
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… Nations Development Account theme, “Support addressing key global development challenges achievement internationally agreed development goals, collaboration global, regional national levels.” vEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rwanda … Fund Agricultural Development women youth coffee tea chains women cases limited authority money earned, including …
Official Document
ASSESSING THE RESULTS OF GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM STUDIES OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
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… studies UR 2 agreements reached public UR worth amount global income. Put euphemisti- cally, big cheque mail WTO … collectively. Production sectors explicitly linked -added chains primary goods, higher stages processing, final … reflected joint research project involving World Bank Global Trade Analysis Project, based Purdue University. …
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Meeting To Consider How Developing Countries Can Enhance Benefits From Exports Of Farm Goods, Natural Resources
… 23-24 January Global Commodities Forum also to focus on credit costs, … will focus on how poor countries can gain more lasting value from their exports of agricultural products and natural resources. The third annual UNCTAD Global Commodities Forum will attract government ministers, …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
23rd China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT)
… This year’s edition of CIFIT, with its focus on the Global Development Initiative, is extremely timely and … declining. According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report, Global FDI fell 12 per cent last year, as interest rates and … It is a common saying that we humans do not know the value of things until we lose them. If we do not work …
Meeting
UNCTAD15 pre-event: Reclaiming industrial policy for development – putting policymaking theory into practice
… the SDGs, tackling the climate emergency, rewiring supply chains in response to the Covid-19 crisis or leveraging new … eighty-four countries (accounting for 90 per cent of global GDP) that had adopted formal industrial policies in … of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains (GVCs) Production Transformation and …