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Trade policies for the low-carbon transition need to take into account least developed country structural features
… through cooperation on trade-enhancing infrastructure, value chains for strategic products, and business linkages, …
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COVID-19 slashes foreign direct investment in Africa by 16%
… investment. Second, the reconfiguration of global value chains (GVCs) and the increasing importance of regional value chains (RVCs) will open new opportunities for African … Africa: FDI flows, top 5 host economies, 2020 (value and change) Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report …
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Draft Country- Pilot Study on Lao's People's Democratic Republic (April 2013)
… policy framework country.2 report focuses coffee chain context wider agriculture agribusiness sector.3 coffee … crop commodities Lao PDR' agribusiness sector, established chain discerned evaluated, private investment, including FDI, … Estimate ue US$ Robusta cent lb Mild ica av price 2010 val VALUE PRODUC 58.9 93,622121.6 ,009 ESTIMATION (Hypothesis: …
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South-South Digital Cooperation for Industrialization: A Regional Integration Agenda
… and service activities. Decisions along the entire value chain of production and distribution have been affected as … countries using world input-output database. The estimated value-added by digital services to manufacturing exports show …
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CHAPTER 1: Sustainable Development Goals, structural transformation and financing for development
Related content: The Least Developed Countries Report 2019
… goods; () demand imported intermediates context global chain activities.11 , terms trade shown sign improvements … global chains increased, limited lowest rungs chain, modest ensuing benefits.15 textile apparel segment, … booming exports. dampens benefit integrating global chain terms balance payments. policy perspective, means …
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Promoting cotton by-products in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lessons from an UNCTAD technical assistance project
… cotton (Baffes, 2009). In many African countries, limited value addition constrains the prices paid to farmers: nearly … cottonseed oil expression as the only additional source of value-added income that can be factored into producer prices. … — the most established value-added industry in the chain — find it difficult to turn a profit with the available …
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Division on Investment and Enterprise: Results and Impact Report 2014
… Direct Investment GTM Global Trends Monitor GVC Global Chain IIA International Investment Agreement IP Intellectual … results-based management processes Division. results chain – investment enterprise sustainable development – … higher sample group control group, case sericulture/silk chain, income surveyed products contributed 26.5% household …
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Policy space on the agenda at UNCTAD Trade and Development Board
… industrialization, and can trap economies in low-value production. Speaking at the session on interdependence, … profits, he said. Countries that have moved up global value chains, notably Germany, Japan, Korea and China, did so … to processed products. Egypt pointed out that global value chains were dominated by a handful of multinational …
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Economic Development in Africa Report 2022 (Executive summary)