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UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative - BioTrade Principles and Criteria for terrestrial, marine and other aquatic biodiversity-based products and services
… conservation sustainable biodiversity promotion trade investment BioTrade products services. BioTrade understood … Organic Pollutants (POPs), listed Rotterdam Convention World Health Organization (WHO) Categories II, / banned … [van Diemen, . (ed.)]. : Climate Change Land: IPCC special report climate change, desertification, land degradation, …
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COVID-19 in the Caribbean and the Central America region: Identifying blue pathways to move forward in a COVID-19 context and beyond
… countries are among the most indebted economies in the world; the average debt for the subregions reached 68.5 per … sector where it is expected that all businesses will report losses. The business climate is very fragile, the … the fisheries sector in Barbados as securing the necessary investment, notably for infrastructure, will remain …
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Voluntary Peer Review of Competition Law and Policy: Ukraine (Overview)
… suited development economic situation. views expressed report authors necessarily reflect views United Nations … period rapid growth number jurisdictions competition laws world. Ukraine lot experience share countries developing … transportation discourage growth, curtail investment, restrict entry expansion firms. regulatory …
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Guidelines for the examination of pharmaceutical patents: Developing a public health perspective by Carlos Correa
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Financial consumer protection, including financial education and literacy
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… services, remittances, credit cards, mortgages, insurance investment products) financial institutions, banks, insurance … Group 20 Good Practices Financial Consumer Protection World Bank. Source: /RES/70/186. 2. 2015, General Assembly … Law Policy, session, requested UNCTAD secretariat prepare report financial consumer protection, including financial …
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Productive capacities index for evidence-based policymaking
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… notion productive capacities defined Developed Countries Report 2006: Developing Productive Capacities “ productive … international economic interaction international trade, investment regional global production chains , subsequently, … domestic development processes increasingly interdependent world, beneficial regional global economic integration. 5. …
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Monetary unions and regional trade in Africa
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… manufactures commodities, dominate Africa’ trade rest world. African countries trade , evidenced share regional … instability. : UNCTAD, 2013, Economic Development Africa Report 2013. Intra-African Trade: Unlocking Private Sector … facilitates movement capital members, fostering investment trade.7, 8 4 RA Mundell, 1961, theory optimum …
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ROLES OF POSSIBLE DISPUTE MEDIATION MECHANISMS AND ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS, INCLUDING VOLUNTARY PEER REVIEWS, IN COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY
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… provisional agenda TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Commission Investment, Technology Related Financial Issues … existing multilateral frameworks, basis review undertaken report; () discuss diplomatic methods dispute settlement … Disputes ( DSU), attached annex 2 Agreement Establishing World Trade Organization, Marrakesh, 1994 ( Marrakesh …
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Assessment of the Eurasian Economic Union Competition Rules and Regulations
… side, consumers effective protection remedies digitalizing world. UNCTAD strong record accomplishments assisting … questions clarifications requested UNCTAD preparation report: . Hrayr Aramyan, Deputy Director, Department … ( visited 1 March 2019], . 3. direct investment (FDI) takes form mergers acquisitions encouraged …
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SYSTEMS AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR PROTECTING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATIONS AND PRACTICES.
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… closely secretariats intergovernmental organizations, CBD World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). 8. issues … incorporating indigenous peoples’ concern Bank-funded investment projects design Indigenous Peoples Development … issue IPRs, COP requested CBD secretariat prepare report issues identified requiring study. 17 Panel recognized …