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The DIAE's mainstay products are the annual World Investment Report (WIR) and the World Investment Forum. The World Investment Forum is a biennial, multi-stakeholder summit designed to facilitate dialogue and action on key emerging investment-related challenges. The World Investment Report is the primary reference document on global investment ...
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. [1] It was established in 1964 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development but rebranded to its current name ...
The RMT is prepared by the Division on Technology and Logistics of the UNCTAD secretariat, it is an important source of information on the port sector. It closely monitors developments affecting world seaborne trade, freight rates, ports, surface transport and logistics services, as well as trends in ship ownership, port / flag state control ...
The inaugural World Investment Forum [2] was held in Accra, Ghana, on the occasion of the twelfth UNCTAD Ministerial Conference [2] in April 2008. It focused on the future of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows: where FDI will come from and which sectors and regions will be the main targets of these flows, as well as the features of corporate strategies that will drive cross-border investment.
The UNCTAD secretariat provides substantive support to the commission. The commission met for the first time in April 1993 in New York City , USA. It replaced the former Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development and its advisory committee created after the Vienna Conference on Science and Technology for Development ...
Rothstein, Robert L. (1979) Global Bargaining: UNCTAD and the Quest for a New International Economic Order Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Traces formation of UNCTAD and its role in the NIEO.) ISBN 0-691-02190-2; Ruiz-Diaz, Hugo. (September 2005) Une tribune pour les pays du Sud. Le Monde diplomatique. Pages 20 and 21. Sattar, Zaidi.
In 2014, she was still working for DESA when she became the Chief of UNCTAD based in New York. [1] She has presented a TEDx talk titled The Fleeting Chance of a Sustainable World at TEDxSainteAnnedeBellevue [5] and she has spoken at Syracuse University about Chantal Line Carpentier to present ‘Negotiating a Global Sustainable Development ...
James X. Zhan has been Director of Investment and Enterprise at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2009. [1] He also leads the preparation of the annual World Investment Report. [2] Zhan has expertise in trade, investment and development strategies.