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Annual general meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, hosted by UNCTAD, considers ways to tackle new challenges.

New data from UNCTAD shows that US tax reforms are dampening global investment activity, casting a shadow over efforts to scale-up investment-for-development initiatives.

Lengthy, complex trade negotiations can be sped up and simplified with artificial intelligence, but new technology always brings new concerns, a 5 October meeting at UNCTAD heard.

Working hand in hand with UNCTAD, members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States will build trade facilitation capacity to reduce bureaucratic delays on imports and exports.

The young business owner from Todiresti, Moldova, is giving a needed boost to local beekeepers in the landlocked Eastern European country.

By using an UNCTAD database to identify and compile non-tariff measures, Malaysia hopes to reduce the cost of compliance by 25%.

Heads of state, private sector and international leaders are meeting at the World Investment Forum in Geneva to close the $2.5 trillion gap needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

A historic place on the Silk Road and full state support gives Azerbaijan an e-commerce boost as delegates to the first Baku E-Trade Forum found out.

Representatives of West African countries are gathering in Burkina Faso to consider their e-commerce future and what needs to be done to realise it.

Written by
Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD