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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 IPFSD aims to translate the core principles into concrete options for policymakers with a view to addressing today’s investment challenges by providing examples of how to draft IIAs that address sustainable development by strengthening development dimensions of IIAs, balancing the rights and obligations of States and investors, and ...
According to UNCTAD's State of Commodity Dependence 2021 report, published on September 8, the number of countries that are heavily dependent on commodities has climbed over the past ten years, from 93 in 2008-2009 to 101 in 2018-2019.
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.
The World Development Report (WDR) is an annual report published since 1978 by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development . Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity, public services delivery, the role of the state, transition economies , labour, infrastructure ...