The UN’s trade and development body has downgraded its global economic growth projection for 2022 to 2.6% from 3.6% due to the Ukraine war and to changes in macroeconomic policies made by countries in recent months. While Russia will experience a deep recession this year, significant slowdowns in growth are …
A task force to assist developing countries integrate environment, trade and development policies has been set up with the assistance of the United Nations Environment Programme (unep) and the un Conference on Trade and Development (unctad). The task force will use the technical expertise of the two agencies and their …
The executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the secretary general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recently signed a memorandum of understanding on the issue of environment and trade. According to Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the executive director of the UNEP, "The joint programme agreed upon …
IT is an irony that the Group of 77 (G-77) - a caucus of over 130 developing nations in the United Nations (uN) system - originally created at the first UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the only global forum where meaningful global trade negotiations take place. The …
The future of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) seems endangered as calls to reform the UN attain stridency. Created in 1964 for providing development ideas, the UNCTAD has emerged high on the hit list, since the creation of the World Trade Organization has rendered it superfluous. Industrialised …
