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UNCTAD, with UNDP and telecoms company Ooredoo Myanmar, holds entrepreneurship training course in Yangon, with a national rollout being considered.

Investors hoping to benefit from one of Africa's fastest-growing economies get easy access to reliable and up-to-date information with a new iGuide to Ethiopia.

Trade is an unspoken element in the Paris Agreement, yet it will have broad impacts on climate change-focused nationally determined contributions.

Statistics often reveal unseen forces, but more needs to be done to incorporate gender equality insights into economy and trade statistics to get the full picture.

UNCTAD is helping investors put their money into Mauritania with an up-to-date online guide that covers all the bases.

First Africa eCommerce Week closes with UNCTAD issuing the Nairobi Manifesto on the Digital Economy and Inclusive Development in Africa.

Meeting in Nairobi, East African Community ministers pledge to undertake trade facilitation reforms in line with continental and WTO agreements.

International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation and UNCTAD sign partnership agreement to support a diagnosis of e-commerce readiness in the Republic of Iraq.

Bringing banking to more Africans means aligning public and private sector objectives and exploiting the gains made by mobile money payment solutions.

Written by Jens Roemer
Article No. 28 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°80 - Fourth Quarter 2018]