Official Document
The global economic crisis: systemic failures and multilateral remedies
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… UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures Multilateral … Economic Cooperation UNITED NATIONS York Geneva, 2009 Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures Multilateral … high transaction costs faced entities commodity supply chains (UNCTAD, 2007b). financialization commodity futures …
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Summer school looks at case for a global green new deal
… The current state of the global political economy was under the microscope of young … focus on corporate rentierism, international trade, global value chains and digital economies. In addition, the young scholars …
Official Document
The coronavirus shock: a story of another global crisis foretold and what policymakers should be doing about it
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… “Covid-19” shock trigger recession countries deceleration global annual growth 2.5 cent -- recessionary threshold world economy. resulting hit global income compared forecasters projecting 2020 … manufacturing activity affected regions bottlenecks global chains. Inventory decumulation support supply , today’ --time …
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Experts urge regional efforts and reliance by the South on the South to spur growth despite global downturn
… the best way to cope with the severity of the recent global financial crisis. They noted that the downturn had … financing that would upgrade the portions of transnational value chains that occured in developing countries. They noted that …
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UNCTAD hosts first Global Corporate Social Responsibility Retreat
… row, fifth from left), with participants at UNCTAD's first Global CSR Retreat and staff from UNCTAD's Division on … challenges of addressing CSR issues across large value chains. The workshops were guided by expert facilitators from …
Press Material
Foreign direct investment to Africa increases, defying global trend for 2012
… increased by 5 per cent to US$50 billion in 2012 even as global FDI fell by 18 per cent, UNCTAD’s annual survey of … The World Investment Report 2013 1 , subtitled Global Value Chains: Investment and Trade for Development , was released …
Non-Official Document
Measurement of the Services Value Added: A validation exercise using Colombian dataset, Professor Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
… MEASUREMENT OF THE SERVICES VALUE ADDED: VALIDATION EXERCISE USING COLOMBIAN DATASET … apply inter-regional context enabling discussion local global chains. • Enable implement impact analysis techniques …
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Digital technologies will affect the entire global food system – what FAO is doing about it
… mitigate the effect of COVID-19 on food and agriculture, value chains, food prices and food security across the globe. [QU … that digital technologies are poised to affect the entire global food system and every actor in that system. Digital …
Non-Official Document
The Value of the WTO Ministerial Decision on Preferential Rules of Origin for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Stefano INAMA, Chief, Section on Enhanced Integrated Framework, Division on Africa, LDCs and Special Programmes (UNCTAD)
… rules origin 9 April 2014 EX ORE TUO TE IUDICO: THE VALUE OF THE WTO MINISTERIAL DECISION ON PREFERENTIAL RULES … lowered preferential margins. fragmentation production global chains approach defeated argument vertical integration …
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Global FDI to fall 10-15% in 2016, road to recovery looks bumpy
… uncertainty will have its own negative impact on trade and global value chains. In the meantime, the road to the recovery of global …