Official Document
Chapter 4: Port performance and maritime trade and transport facilitation
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Meeting
Webinar on understanding smallholder farmer access to voluntary sustainable standards VSS-compliant markets
… Standards (VSS) are instruments to influence how global value chains operate, strengthen farmer´s market access and an …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Fifth Meeting of Trade Ministers of Landlocked Developing Countries
… In parts of Africa, they can be up to 40% higher than the global average. Add to this the fact that LLDCs are often … LLDCs. And many of these exports are high-volume and low-value. This magnifies the problem of trade costs. As a … for example by integrating into regional and global value chains. So, what are the remedies to this? How can we better …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Annual Investment Meeting 2020
… community. COVID-19 has brought the length of supply chains and their resilience to the fore, but a trend towards … the growth of trade has slowed down, and the growth in global value chains has stopped. We at UNCTAD expect that these …
Official Document
Accelerating achievement of the SDGs: International business and the deployment of traditional knowledge
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Official Document
Realizing product diversification for structural change in African countries
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Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Launch of the Economic Development in Africa Report 2023
… of a vibrant economy emphasizing Africa’s potential in global trade and world economic future, that is exactly the … Africa can become a major actor in the global supply chains by harnessing the vast resources and materials needed … material. So, the question here is how we can go up the value addition ladder with this great possibility. And the …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Commission on Science and Technology for Development, twenty-seventh session (Opening plenary)
… Technology and Innovation Report, in 2020, the market value of frontier technologies was already $1.5 trillion. By … bandwidth in least developed countries a fifth of the global average. We must also create a more level playing … very high levels of market concentration. along the entire global data value chain –Their actions have implications for …
Meeting
Webinar on development of PPP dry ports, key features and challenges, showcased with examples from Angola, Egypt and India
… With over 80 per cent of the volume and 70 per cent of the value of world merchandise trade carried by seaports, seaports are key nodes in the global network of interconnected supply chains and economic interdependency that also serve as …