Unctad in a sentence

In a statement, Unctad said the rise of digitalisation has seen businesses and consumers increasingly move online, but not all countries are equally positioned to benefit.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has called on governments and operators to expand and upgrade port infrastructure, transport connections and accelerate trade facilitation reforms.

UN Conference on Trade and Development, or Unctad, report from 2022, two-thirds of Gaza’s population was living in poverty, while its unemployment rate of 45 percent was one of the highest in the world.

For its part, Belarus will fully support the efforts of the UNCTAD leadership and member states to address this issue and to fulfil large-scale tasks of the global economic agenda,” the diplomat added.

The UNCTAD considers the Israeli occupation as a hindrance to the socio-economic development of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Faced with a “a looming financial tsunami” this year, UNCTAD’s four-pronged strategy initially calls for a $1 trillion investment injection for weaker economies.

This would make up 20 percent of the total stock of the FDI in the region ($72 billion), according to UNCTAD.

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For more information about the GSP, see the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s website, (opens in a new window).

The latest report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for 2018 ranked Tunisia 4th among African countries in the field of e-commerce and 79th in the world.

The Unctad report’s modelling extrapolates that increases in government spending will pay for themselves, with an increase of $1 billion spending by the South African government resulting in a $1.5 billion dollar increase in GDP.

Though the study does not examine the impact of the most recent phase of the trade war, it warns that the escalation in summer of 2019 is likely to have added to the existing losses, UNCTAD said.

UNCTAD notes that most public banks, especially development banks, are insufficiently capitalized to be effective in their publicly assigned roles.

UNCTAD organised the master class with the finance ministry and the Macedonian E-commerce Association.

Both Jack Ma and Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, spent time with the fellows during their time in Hangzhou.

In the short-run, UNCTAD noted that adjustment costs also depend on the modalities of tariff reductions.

The UNCTAD report examines the impact of regional integration and overall trade openness on women’s employment patterns.

UNCTAD, a UN agency, supports developing countries to access the benefits of a globalised economy more fairly and effectively.

UNCTAD research shows that average tariffs could rise from negligible levels to as high as 30 percent for U.S. exporters and 35 percent and 40 percent for EU and Chinese exporters, respectively.