Official Document
BOOK REVIEW by Helena Forsman - Navigating Global Business: A Cultural Compass by Simcha Ronen and Oded Shenkar
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… 131 BOOK REVIEW Navigating Global Business. Cultural Compass Simcha Ronen Oded Shenkar … services trade (WTO, 2016a), wave globalization propelled chains, enhancing specialization, productivity access markets … flow ideas, information innovation, enabled exploitation global business opportunities internet applications. McKinsey …
Press Material
Global Commodities Forum 2018: upskilling workers can cut dependence on commodity exports for more than 90 countries
… UNCTAD data, building the human skills needed to add value to raw materials and provide decent work are key objectives to be discussed at UNCTAD's eighth Global Commodities Forum at the Palais des Nations in Geneva … gas. Nevertheless, in both agricultural and mineral value chains, value added activities generally offer the greatest …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
China Overseas Investment Summit 2012: Global Economic Transformation and New Approaches to China's Overseas Investment (Opening Ceremony)
… overseas investment is having a growing impact on today’s global economy. Over the past decade, the China’s outflows … key to the answer is to recognize the importance of global value chains (GVC), and the need to move up the value-chain. In …
Press Material
UNCTAD sets out actions to support least developed countries in the global low-carbon transition
… (UNCTAD) has set out the actions needed to ensure global efforts towards a low-carbon future don’t leave least … emissions and are often inputs to carbon-intensive global value chains including metal products, cement, fertilizers or …
Press Material
UNCTAD calls for urgent global action to support the world’s 46 least developed countries
… Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is rallying global action to help these countries build resilience to … diversification, building links to global and regional value chains and supporting a new development strategy for these …
Meeting
Global Services Forum - Session 4: More resilient and sustainable tourism for the post-pandemic recovery
… This sector contributes approximately 5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, with transport accounting … modernization of the agriculture sector, lengthening of value chains, and improving local populations’ living and working …
News
Global foreign direct investment set to partially recover in 2021 but uncertainty remains
… Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are expected to … a result, developing economies accounted for two thirds of global FDI, up from just under half in 2019 (Figure 1). … by the impact of the pandemic on investment in global value chain-intensive and resource-based activities. …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
International Conference on Global Economic Recovery: Asian Perspective (Plenary Statement)
… Developing Asia remains the fastest-growing region in the global economy, and has generated half of global economic … the sizable trade in intermediary goods across the global value chains that tie the region together. Resiliency in the region …
Non-Official Document
Substantial Transformation: Value Added, percentage thresholds, World Trade Organization (Least Developed Countries Group)
… proposed LDCs • desirable level percentage account global chains (GVCs) • realistic set level percentage arbitrary … sectors Recommendations … Substantial Transformation: Value Added, percentage thresholds, World Trade Organization …
Press Material
WTO and UNCTAD commit to further help poor countries integrate into the global economy
… of Financing for Development, in the achievement of the global Sustainable Development Goals and, above all, in … trade and investment, debt and finance, global value chains, commodities, standards, non-tariff measures, and …