Official Document
Technical note on critical minerals
Related content: COP28 Trade Day event: Critical minerals, the energy transition and the role of trade
News
Cocoa industry reform needed to stop farmers from being left behind
… the Cocoa industry: Integrating small farmers into the global value chain , says that the lion's share of the revenues that are generated along the cocoa global value chain accrues to other stakeholders, including …
Meeting
Trade and Development Commission, thirteenth session
… following issues: The role of trade in a development-led global energy transition: The Trade and Development … chain reconfiguration: Implications for trade, global value chains and maritime transport: The Trade and Development …
Meeting
Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Implementing The Paris Agreement: Response Measures and Trade
… sector, up to 80 percent of trade flows take place within global value chains. And it is within value chains that countries will be …
News
The Gambia targets African tourists for more sustainable growth
… 24 May. Titled The Gambia’s tourism sector: measuring its value chain and exploiting its potential , the seminar will help the ministry better assess the value added by domestic and foreign operators, and to … how well the nation is embedded in regional tourism value chains. Getting data on who benefits “We need to measure the …
Publication
Impact and implications of COVID-19 for the ocean economy and trade strategy
… degree of uncertainty remains, however, as vaccine supply chains experience disruptions and new virus mutations or … of the impacts and implications of COVID-19 on the global ocean economy. The impacts and implications of … Costa Rica. The ocean economy sectors and selected fish value chains of the three countries have been severely …
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 …
Publication
UNCTAD Surveys of Infrastructure Regulators and Competition Authorities
… cent of the world’s work force) are employed in ISS. The global ISS output was estimated at $8.6 trillion in 2010, or … developing countries as a group represent 31 per cent. The value of global ISS exports was $1.4 trillion in 2011, having … role in the expansion and deepening of global value chains, and the expansion of trade associated with them. They …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
IOE's Digital Conference on Economic Advocacy for SMEs
… deserve our attention today more than ever -- the Covid-19 global health emergency is hitting small businesses hard. … , decreasing by up to 40% in 2020, down from the 2019 value of $1.54 trillion, reaching the lowest level in the … to re-assess new projects and restructuring their value chains for resilience. Small businesses are most affected …
Press Material
COVID-19 set to transform international production significantly, says UN Report
… significant fluctuations. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, despite a brief recovery, … sluggish growth in trade and a slowdown of global value chains (GVCs) (figure 1). Existing trends deriving from the …