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Online course on trade and gender deemed a success

27 Mar 2015
Sixty-six participants from forty countries successfully completed the first edition of UNCTAD's online course on trade and gender, held from 19 January to 8 March 2015. All participants agreed the course had met or exceeded their expectations and enhanced their knowledge of the trade-gender links.
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Romanian Financial Market Moves Forward on Sustainability

27 Mar 2015

​Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) signs commitment letter to join the United Nation’s Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative; pledges to promote more sustainable investments and improved environmental, social and corporate governance disclosure in the Romanian financial market.

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Cabo Verde's Creative Economy report available on-line

26 Mar 2015
The report and its findings support the potential of Cabo Verde to capitalize on its rich cultural expressions (music, festivals, handicrafts, gastronomy, tourism and cultural events) to achieve real sustainable development.
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UNCTAD and WITSA sign MoU to assist developing countries to benefit from ICTs

25 Mar 2015
Efforts to boost the local information and communications technology industry in developing countries gained new ground today as UNCTAD and the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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UNCTAD: an increasingly recognized partner within the UN System

25 Mar 2015
New programmes in Rwanda on the Green Economy and Global Value Chains, demonstrate how UNCTAD is broadening its cooperation at the country level with key partners from the UN Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity.
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Progress in the implementation of the Pan African Cotton Road Map

25 Mar 2015

​UNCTAD  participated in a series of meetings held in Cotonou, Benin from 9 to 11 March 2015, to mark the 10th anniversary of the European Union-Africa Partnership on Cotton and discuss implementation of the Pan African Cotton Road Map.
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Information Economy Report 2015: Unlocking the Potential of E-commerce for Developing Countries

24 Mar 2015

The 2015 edition of Information Economy Report examines electronic commerce, and shows in detail how information and communications technologies can be harnessed to support economic growth and sustainable development.
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Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality

11 Mar 2015
Partner stock exchanges from the UNCTAD co-organized Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative ring their opening or closing bells in support of gender equality and to highlight the pivotal role of the private sector in empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community.
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Nairobi Securities Exchange Joins United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative

10 Mar 2015
Nairobi Securities Exchange officially joins United Nation's Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. CEO Geoffrey Otieno Odundo declared, "Nairobi Securities Exchange firmly believes that a sustainable capital market is critical to the attainment of sustainable long-term economic growth in Kenya and the East African Community."
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Asia-Pacific Regional High-level Policy Dialogue on the Istanbul Programme of Action attended by UNCTAD

9 Mar 2015
UNCTAD Director served as resource High-level Policy Dialogue on the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 2011-2020, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 4-6 March 2015.
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