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Borderline: Ambassadors from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia open event marking International Women’s Week 2018

Borderline: Ambassadors from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia open event marking International Women’s Week 2018

7 Mar 2018
Women cross-border traders in central Africa bring their stories to Geneva at UNCTAD exhibit and video screening.
Borderline: Rural women in trade agreements - a Q&A with activists

Borderline: Rural women in trade agreements - a Q&A with activists

7 Mar 2018
A discussion on "making trade agreements work for rural women" with the non-governmental organization Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development.
Borderline: Reliable data on women is crucial to measuring empowerment and equality

Borderline: Reliable data on women is crucial to measuring empowerment and equality

6 Mar 2018
The importance of trade for development – and the meaning of gender in it – can be determined by crunching sex-disaggregated data.
Borderline: Women in informal trade want to do business legally and become more prosperous

Borderline: Women in informal trade want to do business legally and become more prosperous

5 Mar 2018

UNCTAD travelled to half a dozen frontier communities in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania to find out more about women living on the borderline.
Solomon Islands customs agency collects record SBD$1 billion

Solomon Islands customs agency collects record SBD$1 billion

1 Mar 2018

Three years after installing UNCTAD’s automated customs management system, the South Pacific island nation has collected more than $126 million in annual import taxes.​
Smoothing the way for humanitarian aid: the UN’s life-saving ASYREC partnership

Smoothing the way for humanitarian aid: the UN’s life-saving ASYREC partnership

1 Mar 2018

How can we avoid customs red-tape when people are in deep need of help after a major crisis?
Consumer protection in the Middle East and North Africa supported by new Cairo training centre

Consumer protection in the Middle East and North Africa supported by new Cairo training centre

27 Feb 2018
UNCTAD and the Egyptian government come together to open a training centre for regional consumer protection officials.
Keep an eye on China's innovations in development finance

Keep an eye on China's innovations in development finance

26 Feb 2018

The firepower of Chinese institutions and their eagerness to invest in infrastructure is shaking up the rules of development finance, according to an UNCTAD expert.
Tea and potatoes show potential of intra-Africa agricultural trade

Tea and potatoes show potential of intra-Africa agricultural trade

20 Feb 2018
An UNCTAD analysis of African food trade identified tea and potatoes as good examples of how agricultural "value chains" can be built on the continent.
Collective action is key to defending trade, Geneva Dialogue hears

Collective action is key to defending trade, Geneva Dialogue hears

19 Feb 2018
Challenges to the multilateral trading system can be met by collective institutions like UNCTAD defending trade's power to pull more people out of poverty.
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