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The forum comes as investment increasingly flows towards strategic sectors crucial to the technologies, infrastructure and energy systems of tomorrow.

Stronger partnerships are key to ensuring trade supports resilience, creates opportunities and delivers sustainable development for all.

The choices made today will determine whether critical minerals become a catalyst for economic transformation or reinforce patterns of commodity dependence.

On his official visit to China, Acting Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno urges stronger pathways for developing countries as trade, investment and industries evolve.

By shifting the focus from what is produced to what is sustained and shared, the new dashboard marks a fundamental change in how the world defines progress.

New analysis shows how linking information governments already collect can reveal who benefits from services trade and help guide better policy.

Seaweed is an increasingly valuable global commodity, but many producing countries are capturing only a small share of its potential value. UN efforts are under way to close this gap.

More data, stronger capacity and better access to digital opportunities are crucial to helping more countries benefit from the growing services economy.

Developing countries can better shape their economic future by directing investment towards strategic sectors that build productive capacity, expand access to technology and open new markets.

• Smaller firms account for 70% of the world’s employment, 90% of businesses and 50% of global GDP.
• Rising energy, transport, insurance and financing costs can put disproportionate pressure on these firms.
• Vulnerabilities are particularly acute in developing economies and exclusion from value chains can persist even as overall trade recovers.