Official Document
CHAPTER 3: Global enablers of illicit financial flows
Related content: Economic Development in Africa Report 2020
… Chapter 3 Global enablers illicit financial flows IFFs multiple origins … evasion tax avoidance (section 3.2) sheds light system’ global actors (section 3.3). exposé cover ongoing reforms … entities increasingly contested. intensification global chains resulting increase trade intermediates led affiliates …
Official Document
Global Investment Trends Monitor, No. 24
… NO.24 6 OCTOBER 2016 GLOBAL INVESTMENT PROSPECTS ASSESSMENT 2016–2018 HIGHLIGHTS Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows expected decline 10–15 cent 2016, reflecting fragility global economy persistent weakness aggregate demand, sluggish …
Official Document
The value and role of data in electronic commerce and the digital economy and its implications for inclusive trade and development
Related content: Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy, Third session
… integration wider range activities single systems, making chains increasingly data driven. 6. background, chapter … . increasingly important role data digital economy 7. Global Internet Protocol traffic, proxy data flows, grown … أجةةل ال مة والذكاي اقصطناع ؟ … TD/B/EDE/3/2 … The value and role of data in electronic commerce and the digital …
Official Document
The threshold effects of global economic uncertainty on foreign direct investment
Related content: Transnational Corporations Volume 29, 2022, Number 1
… UNCTAD/DIAE/IA/2022/2 … The threshold effects of global economic uncertainty on foreign direct investment … …
News
Coronavirus could shrink global FDI by 5% to 15%
… The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak could cause global foreign direct investment (FDI) to shrink by 5%-15%, … the outbreak and its potential impact on FDI and global value chains. Source: UNCTAD calculations based on IMF, WEO, …
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Global foreign direct investment flows fell sharply in 2017
… Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell by 23% in … 2017. “Downward pressure on FDI and the slowdown in global value chains are a major concern for policymakers worldwide, and …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology's informal discussion 'Advancing an inclusive digital economy: Opportunities for the Global Digital Compact?'
… critical juncture in human history – a moment filled with global challenges, but also brimming with technological … and environmental challenges, a coordinated and united global action is needed. Efforts within individual countries, … developing countries should be able to create and capture value. Developing countries must not be relegated to just …
Official Document
PRODUCTIVE INTEGRATION OF LDCS INTO REGIONAL SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF SOUTH ASIA by John Serieux, University of Manitoba, Canada
… | UNCTAD REGIONAL VALUE CHAINS BACKGROUND PAPER PRODUCTIVE INTEGRATION OF LDCS INTO … matching tasks location-specific advantages. , regional global level, web firms engaged supply-chain production …
News
Global trade hits record $7.7 trillion in first quarter of 2022
… The value of global trade rose to a record $7.7 trillion in Q1 … $1 trillion relative to Q1 2021, according to UNCTAD’s Global Trade Update published on 7 July. The growth, which … this year are continuing challenges for global supply chains, regionalization trends and policies supporting the …
Publication
Global trade in plastics: insights from the first life-cycle trade database
… This paper presents the first attempt to quantify and map global trade flows across the entire life cycle of plastics - … up to more than US$1 trillion in 2018 or 5% of the total value of global trade - almost 40% higher than previous … using plastic as a means to participate in global value chains and to add value to exports. At the same time, while …