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At the World Statistics Congress in Kuala Lumpur, UNCTAD held a session entitled “Multinational profit shifting and illicit financial flows – can we measure them?”.

Written by
Fabrizio Meliado, Parkhi Vats, Kris Terauds, Matthias Knappe

Written by
Christopher Garroway and Chantal Line Carpentier of UNCTAD

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 calls for urgent action on debt relief, concessional lending and improved sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 looks at the trends and challenges in the global economy, including: trade tensions, currency movements, corporate debt, a no-deal Brexit, inverted yield curves and negative interest rates.

New initiative seeks to empower leading female digital entrepreneurs to make their voices heard at the policy table, while inspiring those who aim to break tech's glass ceiling.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 recasts the Depression era's signature policy on a global scale - a Global Green New Deal - as the right policy framework to make a clean break with years of austerity and insecurity. It would help bring about a more equal distribution of income and reverse decades of environmental degradation.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 makes proposals on how to regulate private capital and channel it into long-term productive investment with social and developmental public priorities. It estimates that implementing these proposals would improve resource availability in developing countries by roughly $510 billion to $680 billion a year.

UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 maintains that it is public banking that does the heavy lifting and hence public banking should be better supported for the future.

Written by: Celine Bacrot and Giovanni Valensisi
Article No. 39 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°83 - Third Quarter 2019]