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Transforming trade, backing productive capacities is key to fixing global economy

In recent years, fractures and fault lines have deepened across the world economy, compromising the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. These include widening inequalities that have fuelled popular discontent with globalization, deepening digital divides and uneven vulnerabilities to climate change.

In his report to the fifteenth quadrennial conference to be held in Barbados in October 2021, the UNCTAD Secretary-General sets down a roadmap for health, productivity, prosperity and fixing a fractured global economy scarred by the coronavirus pandemic.

UN agencies finalize a framework to measure illicit financial flows

Pilot projects using the new framework are currently ongoing in Afghanistan, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama and Peru. More are planned for 2021 in other African and Asian nations.

21 Dec 2020

Precautionary principle: UNCTAD’s quadrennial conference postponed amid COVID-19 rebound

UNCTAD Secretary-General and Barbados Prime Minister committed to an in-person meeting of nations in October 2021 in Bridgetown for UNCTAD15.

11 Dec 2020

Calibrating technology to tackle sustainable development challenges in Africa

Science, technology, and innovation set to boost post COVID-19 recovery as the continent seeks to tap its energy and agricultural sectors as tools for development and growth with UNCTAD’s help.

11 Dec 2020

Afnan Kamel Ali with Princess Rainer of Jordan

Jordanian woman techpreneur scoops UN business award

Ten finalists in the UNCTAD Empretec Women in Business Awards demonstrate how resilience, sustainability, circularity and inclusiveness are critical success factors in their ventures.

11 Dec 2020