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Green energy could help developing countries that are too dependent on commodities exports diversify their economies and reduce their vulnerabilities to volatile markets, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant has said in Geneva at an international meeting on commodities.

A changing investment policy landscape has investors feeling uncertain at a stage when the world's most vulnerable economies desperately need foreign cash, UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi has told an international meeting on investment convening this week in Geneva.

The need for developing countries to diversify the portfolio of goods and services they produce has become even more pressing as governments move to act on the promises of the Paris climate agreement, UNCTAD Deptuy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant has told an international meeting in Geneva.

Écrit par: Brahima CISSE, Ngaye TORDINA, Dieudonné KAM
Article No. 11 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°76 - Fourth Quarter 2017]

The growing concentration of market power in the hands of big international companies is a worrying trend for small businesses, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant said in Geneva at the launch of a new report on SME competitiveness around the globe.

The Pacific Island nation of Samoa has made considerable progress in recent years in getting businesses and consumers online but still faces challenges before being fully ready to benefit from e-commerce, an UNCTAD assessment of the country published today says.

Intergovernmental Group of Experts meet to discuss maximizing the development gains from e-commerce and the digital economy.

UNCTAD index ranks 143 economies for business-to-consumer e-commerce readiness.