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Illicit trade endangers the environment, the law and the SDGs. We need a global response
… For instance, illegal logging, with an estimated annual value of up to $157 billion, is the world’s most profitable …
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Report of the Public Symposium 2014
… entry China India world economy, affected global supply chain inequality. , empirical evidence showed developing … world. 30 years, trade map, global production networks chain changed dramatically. Unskilled workers acquired skills …
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GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY EFFORTS MUST ADDRESS LINK BETWEEN COMMODITY DEPENDENCE AND EXTREME POVERTY, SAYS UNCTAD
… within the domestic economy and low levels of local value-added. In the medium term, the erosion of special … LDCs thus generally have a low-productivity, low-value-added and weakly competitive commodity sector that is … commodity production. Improved market access is of no real value if the LDCs cannot produce in the sectors in which they …
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Trade war threatens outlook for global shipping, warns new United Nations Report
… to a modest 3.3% growth rate. Looking at the shipping value chain, Germany remained the largest containership-owning …
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Practical implementation of compliance monitoring and the enforcement of accounting and audit requirements for high-quality reporting [with Corrigendum]
Related content: Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, thirty-third session
… monitoring enforcement mechanism cover entire reporting chain. address issue comprehensiveness reporting process, … improvement capacity- building mechanism reporting supply chain. include set indicators identify gaps priorities … professional accountants corporate reporting supply chain. 65. regard, consultative group agreed importance …
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Addressing systemic issues: Strengthening the coherence and consistency of multilateral financial, investment, trade and development policy
Related content: Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Financing for Development, fourth session
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Cross-border enforcement of consumer law: Looking to the future - Prof. Christina Riefa, University of Reading
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Market access for services exports from least developed countries needs to get real, MC11 hears
… have a comparative advantage here by creating interesting value-chain possibilities. However, preferences for tourism and …
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Independent programme evaluation: UNCTAD's E-Commerce and Digital Economy Programme
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UNCTAD´S CONTRIBUTION TO THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR LDCs FOR THE DECADE 2001-2010: Progress made, results achieved and lessons learned
Related content: UNCTAD´S CONTRIBUTION TO THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR LDCs FOR THE DECADE 2001-2010: Progress made, results achieved and lessons learned
… PoA targets 16 finally impacts. stages represented causal chain linked stages, figure : Figure 1: Assessment Levels increasingly difficult demonstrate causality causal chain extends activities outputs outcomes final impact goals … PoA focus initially activities output stages causal chain evaluation analysis, involving selection indicators …