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Lack of digital in development strategies in focus at eCommerce Week

29 Mar 2019

Amid a surge in global online commerce, decision-makers head to UNCTAD eCommerce Week to shift the discussion around e-commerce from a focus on digitalization to one on development.

Written by Rohini S. Swaminathan, Geospatial Engineer and Consultant

Emulating China's rise - can it be done?

22 Mar 2019

The ambitious Belt and Road Initiative seeks to pull over 120 countries connected to China into a unified market using investment and lessons from its own economic ascent.

Barbados bets on high-value seafood for blue future

22 Mar 2019

Value chains that tap under-utilized sea species are the blue gold Barbados could use to jump-start an economic diversification strategy.

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