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The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women and threatens to roll back decades of hard-won progress on the fight against inequalities between women and men.

UNCTAD15 will be officiated by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasizing the importance of addressing the urgent trade and development needs of developing countries as they attempt to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

Large power imbalances stalk the growing digital economy as major platforms reinforce their positions in the global data value chain.

A new approach is needed for countries to better harness data as a global public good.

What would you do to make a sale? Some women cross-border traders in Africa navigate corruption, outsmart tricksters and thieves, and even cross crocodile-infested waters to do so. UNCTAD explores how to overcome these barriers.

The pandemic, combined with other negative occupation-related developments, make 2020 the worst year for the Palestinian people since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994.

Now more than ever, civil society groups should define what the recovery from the coronavirus should look like and who it should serve.

Without better state capacity – ability to accomplish policy goals – the world’s poorest countries will remain on the margins of the global economy.

The world needs more effective multilateral coordination, without which recovery efforts in advanced countries will damage development prospects in the South and amplify existing inequalities, says UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2021.

In 2021, the global economy will bounce back with growth of 5.3%, the fastest in nearly 50 years. The rebound is, however, highly uneven along regional, sectoral and income lines, according to UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2021.