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By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General, UNCTAD

Written by Sanjam Sahi Gupta, Article No. 76 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°90 - Second Quarter 2021]

Policymakers and experts call on UNCTAD to play a leading role in research, finance and technical assistance to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, seas and marine resources.

UNCTAD launches a new course to help ports around the globe keep ships moving and goods flowing while protecting workers during the current and future pandemics.

The British Standards Institution and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East-Asia have joined the eTrade for all initiative.

By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General of UNCTAD

COVID-19 has heightened the need to boost productive capacities for socioeconomic recovery in the world’s poorest nations.

The region suffered the sharpest decline in foreign investment flows to developing countries in 2020.

Developing Asia is the only region that recorded growth in foreign investment in 2020, accounting for more than half of global inward and outward flows.

Despite recovery efforts, a return to pre-pandemic levels of inward foreign direct investment is unlikely in the coming years.