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| | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body, UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues. | | | The organizations goals are to "maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist them in their efforts to integrate into the world economy on an equitable basis." (from official website). | | | UNCTAD has 400 staff members and an annual regular budget of approximately US$50 million and US$25 million of extrabudgetary technical assistance funds. |
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| | CSD 4 Background Paper 20 UNCTAD activities on trade, environment and development, 1995-1996 |
| | UNCTAD was called upon to enhance the exchange of experiences among developing countries on the subject of environmental cost internalization, undertake pilot projects for assisting interested developing countries in the design and implementation of internalization policies, and to expand applied research on the costs and benefits of implementing and not implementing such policies. | | | UNCTAD and UNEP are currently cooperating on issues such as criteria for the use of trade measures in MEAs, the concepts of equivalencies and mutual recognition in the context of eco- labelling, and capacity-building. | | | UNCTAD is cooperating with UNEP in a project, executed by the latter agency, aimed at examining the contribution of different policy instruments, including both trade measures and positive measures, to achieving the environmental objectives of three MEAs. |
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| | UNCTAD: Time to Lead, Time to Challenge the WTO |
| | UNCTAD should become, as Secretary General Ricupero put it recently in Berlin, a "world parliament on globalization."(16) But this should be a parliament with teeth, with actual legislative power and executive power in the nexus of trade, finance, development, and environment. | | | A vigorous UNCTAD that competes in the process of defining global rules for trade, finance, investment, and sustainable development is essential in a pluralistic global economic regime where global institutions, organizations, and agreements complement as well as check one another. | | | UNCTAD and Group of 77 pressure was also central to the IMF's establishing a new window, the Compensatory Financing Facility (CFF), which was meant to assist Third World countries in managing foreign exchange crises created by sharp falls in the prices of the primary commodities they exported. |
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| | CIEL participates in civil society hearings in preparation for UNCTAD |
| | UNCTAD is the focal point within the United Nations for the integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development.” To learn more about UNCTAD, and about the hearings involving civil society, please see their website. | | | Civil Society and private sector organizations with observer status with UNCTAD and those accredited to the Conference and its preparatory process are permitted to attend the hearings. | | | in Preparation for UNCTAD XI The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XI is holding "hearings" with representatives from Member States, civil society and the private sector on 16 January and 23 February 2004. |
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http://www.ciel.org/Tae/UNCTAD_21Jan04.html
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| | Asia Times: Unctad earns more clout but less cash |
| | Unctad was also able to secure through the Bangkok Declaration agreement that the benefits of trade liberalization and globalization must be more widely distributed and market access for the products of least developed countries (LDCs) increased. | | | Now Unctad has been boosted by a mandate from members to help look into the shape of a new economic system, after seeing the costs of overly hasty liberalization of markets on the developing world, not least the Asian crisis and trade marginalization of Africa. | | | The quality of Unctad's work has been such as to attract to it the support of the developing world, Ricupero said, but he also expressed hope that it could get more funds from the regular budget of the United Nations. |
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http://www.atimes.com/global-econ/BB23Dj02.html
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| | The Hindu Business Line : Unctad: For a new agenda |
| | Unctad and the ICC worked together on a set of guidelines to assist less developed countries attract corporate investment. | | | There is no point in reviving Unctad, which does not have much legal authority on the various trade agreements that regulate global trade now. | | | Specifically, Unctad and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have embarked upon highly controversial projects with the ICC and individual corporations. |
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/06/14/stories/2004061400010800.htm
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| | UNCTADâs wide expertise in capacity building for trade and investment negotiations, in managing debt and supporting debt restructuring, and in enhancing efficiency in trade, is tapped by more and more member States and is highly appreciated by other UN development agencies. | | | UNCTAD flagship reports on trade and development, investment, least developed countries and e-commerceâ” as well as the special research on the history ofUNCTAD â” have all helped to underpin the case for development-friendly policies in support of developing and transition economies. | | | UNCTADâs analytical initiatives on trade and poverty, on dynamic sectors in world trade and on the new geography of trade have caught the imagination of development policy makers. |
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| | Asia Times: Unctad meeting may trip over too-high hopes |
| | While Unctad cannot and should not replace the WTO, ''it is Unctad's task to play midwife to a more democratic system of global economic governance'', Walden Bello and Nicola Bullard wrote in a published commentary this week. | | | How Unctad handles the conference and whether it can create a new niche for itself in the global debate on an appropriate development model, in the wake of the Asian crisis, could shape the future of the institution. | | | Still, the Unctad meet gives economists, government officials and civil society, learning from the lessons of Seattle, another venue to discuss reforms in the world trade regime and the larger issue of managing globalization. |
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| | IATP UNCTAD XI Resource Center |
| | According to Unctad, 36 countries depend on a single commodity for more than half of their export income, while a further 52 countries depend on two commodities for the same revenue. | | | Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) this weekend in Sao Paulo will be surprised by the shift in focus from the anti-establishment rhetoric of yesteryear to pragmatic, free-market economics. | | | At the meeting Unctad will adopt a compromise document that allows it to continue its work on consensus-building, policy analysis, and technical assistance, while pushing for a stronger commitment to institutional reform. |
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| | DEBT MANAGEMENT-Report on te Joint Programmed of Debt Management |
| | For UNCTAD to play its important role, it needs to secure the availability, on a long-term basis, of the professional capacity needed for the installation and servicing of DMFAS, the continued development of the programme, and the related advice on debt strategy and liabilities management. | | | UNCTAD's mandate was to provide assistance to countries participating in debt rescheduling negotiations, in particular to developing countries reschduling bilateral debt at the Paris club. | | | UNCTAD succeeded in pursuing its work thanks to special fund-raising, while the reduction in the UNDP-financing meant a serious curtailment of the World Bank's ability to provide technical assistance for debt management. |
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| | Report from Bangkok: Pie Eclipses Talk at UNCTAD |
| | UNCTADs role, said Secretary General Rubens Ricupero, was to provide good critical analysis of global economic developments, provide technical capacity training to developing countries entering the world trading system, and "build consensus" on key trade and development issues. | | | After all, it was largely the dynamism of Raul Prebisch, UNCTADs founder, that enabled UNCTAD in the late sixties to play a key role in securing global commodity agreements and preferential access to developed country markets of developing country exports. | | | In the wake of the collapse of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Seattle, one would have expected UNCTAD to more aggressively assert its role in framing the rules of global governance in trade and financial issues. |
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| | openDemocracy |
| | UNCTAD was created forty years ago as a forum for the promotion of trade and development policies that help poor countries. | | | But talks at the WTO have been stalled since the ministerial summit in Cancún in September 2003, when the refusal of rich country governments to deliver on reforms they had promised led to a stalemate that has yet to be overcome. | | | This is mainly a commemorative event — a fortieth birthday — but also a moment to reinforce the importance of the issues both UNCTAD and the G77 stand for: a voice for developing countries and a fair chance for all to benefit from globalisation. |
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| | Oxfam International > Press Release > Oxfam: Crisis in world trade must be addressed at UNCTAD XI |
| | Increased political and financial support for UNCTAD is essential if it is to continue to provide a forum for developing country governments to discuss pro-poor development, carry out independent research on key economic issues, and offer technical assistance to developing countries. | | | Following the recommendations of the draft UNCTAD XI text, ministers should move fast to agree reforms that will get the Doha Development Round back on track, including allowing developing countries to protect sensitive agricultural sectors, reforming all trade-distorting subsidies, and ending export dumping. | | | The collapse in the price of commodities and the persistence of rich country protectionism mean that more than ever developing countries need their voices to be heard. |
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| | UNCTAD XI TAKES ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES |
| | Following heated negotiation over the concept of 'policy space' during the preparatory process and at the UNCTAD XI Conference, governments reached agreement on language recognising that the national autonomy of developing countries has been constrained in the past by 'rule-based regimes for international economic relations'. | | | It also raised concern that UNCTAD lose its independent role as a forum for critical analysis, and provided a number of recommendations for action on, inter alia, global governance and coherence, policy space, commodities, and partnerships. | | | The São Paolo Consensus recognises the tradeoffs between entering into such regimes and the panoply of options that may be available in the realm of national economic policy vis-à-vis trade, investment and industrial development. |
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| | Mining, Environment and Development > UNCTAD |
| | The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) [http://www.unctad.org] is the principal organ of the UN General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues, as well as the United Nations focal point for the least developed countries. | | | For example, UNCTAD initiated the website, Mineral Resources Forum (MRF) [http://www.natural-resources.org/minerals/] with the aim of providing a global portal to sustainable development issues related to mineral resources. | | | More recently, funding from the United Nations Development Account has allowed UNCTAD to extend its work on sustainable resource-based development. |
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| | Archived Articles - UNCTAD - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum |
| | In its press release, UNCTAD reports that for Least Developed Countries to benefit from debt relief, the donor countries must increase their efforts to ensure these countries’ “sustainable exit from the debt trap”. | | | The UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report shows an uneven performance of the world economy, with the US and Asia profiting the most. | | | UNCTAD has released the 2000 World Investment Report, addressing Foreign Direct Investment flows, activities of Transnational Corporations and the rising number of Mergers & Acquisitions. |
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| | 5th UNCTAD/Earth Council Policy Forum on Trade and Climate Change (Rio Policy Forum) |
| | UNCTAD’s work on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading began in 1991, with the goal of reducing the impact of climate change by fostering an integrated global emissions trading system. | | | This session, moderated by Gao Pronove, UNCTAD, considered the provisions for the purchase of project-based GHG offsets from abroad and the criteria and requirements for their trade within emerging national systems. | | | As a result, Petrobras is developing a strategic plan to establish internal environmental indicators and inventories of its pollutants between 2003 and 2004, and aims to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency. |
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| | The WTO in 2003: The Rocky Road to Cancun |
| | The most frequent exceptions to the MFN standard relate to international networks of obligations, such as those arising from bilateral tax treaties or membership of regional economic integration groupings, where a degree of preferential treatment for the investors and investments of the other contracting parties is usual. | | | Turning, first, to the coverage of “investor” in IIAs, the scope of the definition of this term is based, first, on the link of nationality with a particular country that is a party to the agreement. | | | They can take two major forms, fiscal incentives, based on tax advantages to investors, and financial incentives based on the provision of funds directly to investors to finance new investments or certain operation or to defray capital or operational costs. |
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| | UNCTAD |
| | UNCTAD, a United Nations entity, is the most authoritative and reliable source of information about global FDI by country and by activity and its statistics and diagrams are quoted equally by right wing corporate hacks and left wing activists. | | | For your information, the most common "customers" of UNCTAD info are not SME's, but rather medium and large sized companies, and particularly regional and national government staff who work in int'l trade policy development. | | | But, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stresses that to capture the full impact of the growth of TNCs it is important to also note that they are now rapidly boosting their foreign activities through a variety of non-equity firms (e.g. |
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http://www.witiger.com/internationalbusiness/UNCTAD.htm
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| | IATP UNCTAD XI Resource Center |
| | In the past eight years, UNCTAD's mandate has been diminished by aggressive action of the U.S. and EU governments, including a current effort to further remove the issue of commodities from the heart of the agenda for UNCTAD XI. | | | Historically, UNCTAD has been the lead multilateral agency concerned with third world development, serving as host for various international commodity agreements and, more generally, as a "think tank" for the South. | | | A new initiative to address low agricultural commodity prices was a significant step forward, with the creation of a new Task Force on commodities. |
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| | The second year will be dedicated to "advanced training" of employees and to the creation of "tailor-made services" to supply the sector needs. | | | Meanwhile, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance of Palestine, Unctad is going to establish a computerized customs clearance system at the border between Egypt and Gaza. | | | The projects, with budgets adding up to 703,000 euros, will be paid for with funds contributed by the European Commission (EC), an executive organisation of the European Union. |
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| | Junk e-mails costing billions of dollars: UNCTAD report |
| | An estimated 50 percent of all e-mail messages in circulation by the end of the year could be unsolicited "spam", which would cost as much as 20.5 billion dollars (17.5 billion euros) in wasted technical resources, a report by UNCTAD warned Thursday. | | | Risks must be identified and governments should cooperate with each other to eradicate the problem, it advised. | | | Junk e-mails costing billions of dollars: UNCTAD report |
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| | The UN Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) is increasingly used by OECD countries and business groupings as a forum for moving Third World countries in the direction of a friendlier position on investment deregulation. | | | At its May 1996 conference in Witrand, South Africa, UNCTAD received a mandate to study the development implications of existing investment arrangements like bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and to discuss the necessity of a multilateral framework for investment. | | | And at UNCTAD's 1996 World Investment Forum conference, the ICC spoke on behalf of world business, outlining what Third World countries should do to attract foreign direct investment. |
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| | USIS Washington File: TEXT: MOOSE SAYS UNCTAD SHOULD NOT TAKE ON NEW SUBJECT AREAS |
| | The UNCTAD secretary-general has proposed expanding the conference's mission into other areas, including the reform of the international financial architecture. | | | The issues paper prepared by the Secretary-General for this High-Level Meeting poses the issue of the expansion of UNCTAD activities into other areas, including the reform of the international financial architecture. | | | Among these questions are the nature of the links between trade and finance, and the need to ensure that new work that might be undertaken does not detract from the focus on, and resources devoted to, core UNCTAD activities. |
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| | In its latest Report, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development backs the call of Jubilee 2000 campaigns around the world, for an independent process for managing debt crises, by allowing countries to unilaterally declare "standstills" in debt payments; and "to establish an independent panel for sanctioning such decisions". | | | UNCTAD backs Jubilee call for an independent, transparent process for orderly debt workouts, and attacks IMF "bail outs" and bias towards creditors | | | These omissions reflect political, rather than technical constraints argues the Report, asserting that "the reform process has been driven by the interest of the major creditor countries". |
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| | IATP UNCTAD XI Resource Center |
| | A statement presented to UNCTAD from international labor organizations calling on UNCTAD to reassert the centrality of UNCTAD’s role in making proposals to achieve sustainable social and economic development everywhere. | | | A proposal to establish an International Task Force on Commodities (ITFC) with a view to putting together the efforts of all interested stakeholders and direct them towards a pragmatic approach which will bring focus and priority to breaking the cycle of poverty in which many commodity producers and commodity-dependent countries are now locked. | | | Background paper by IATP looking at key issue on the agenda of UNCTAD XI. |
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| | Trade developments (including UNCTAD) |
| | UNCTAD advocates new mechanism for ascertaining debt sustainability (C.Raghavan) | | | Statement of Chakravarthi Raghavan, on behalf of TWN, on 25 October at the Committee of the Whole (of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board) preparing for UNCTAD X | | | UNCTAD Commission recommendations on services, commodities (S. Singh) |
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| | Choike - UNCTAD XI |
| | UNCTAD XI delegates seek trade liberalization for development | | | Civil Society, corporate globalisation and the role of UNCTAD | | | A report with an overall analysis of UNCTAD XI. |
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| | OECD and UNCTAD Sign a Statement of Partnership |
| | As UNCTAD prepares for its forthcoming conference, UNCTAD XI, both organisations will promote the institutional and policy reforms which help build a competitive domestic productive capacity. | | | The ultimate aim is the full integration of developing countries into the world economy and into the global trading system". | | | Mr Johnston noted that the organisations have complementary expertise: "OECD has experience building strong open economies and UNCTAD has a track record promoting development and integrating developing countries into the international trading system. |
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| | DRAFT TEXT READY IN ADVANCE OF UNCTAD CONFERENCE |
| | The draft notes that "trade or increased financial flows can be means to sustainable development but they are not ends in themselves", and says UNCTAD must maintain the overarching mandate of "elaborate[ing] and promot[ing] Southern development policies in a more equal and enabling international economic environment". | | | Civil society organisations (CSOs) have prepared a draft CSO statement, which will be finalised in Sao Paulo and presented to members at the beginning of the Conference. | | | UNCTAD XI will focus on enhancing the coherence between national development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth and development, particularly for developing countries. |
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| | IPU Council: results of UNCTAD X |
| | Endorses the idea of establishing within IPU an ad hoc body to look into issues relating to parliamentary follow-up to the Third WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle, and requests the IPU Secretary General to prepare practical proposals in this regard for approval by the IPU governing bodies at their session in Jakarta in October 2000. | | | Entrusts the IPU Secretary General with implementing the recommendation to establish a world directory of parliamentary bodies dealing with the issues of trade, finance and development and to make this information available to parliaments and relevant multilateral institutions, preferably in on-line format; | | | Also entrusts the IPU Secretary General with finding, together with the UNCTAD Secretariat, ways of introducing targeted distribution of UNCTAD publications and materials, such as the "World Investment Report", to relevant parliamentary bodies; |
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| | ONGC among top-50 Unctad list of NFTCs- The Economic Times |
| | NEW DELHI: ONGC is the only Indian company in the list of Unctad’s top 50 non-financial transnational corporations (NFTCs) from developing nations ranked by foreign assets in ’03. | | | It ranked 27 among the 50 TNCS and had assets worth $15.2bn; foreign assets totaled $2.3bn, ONGC said. | | | Choose a letter for all companies under it |
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| | 5th UNCTAD/Earth Council Policy Forum on Trade and Climate Change 29-31 August 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| | Initially, companies in several energy-intensive industrial sectors were taxed on their energy use, but could get up to 80 percent CCL discount if they would implement energy saving practices. | | | The concluding panel, moderated by Rene Vossenaar, UNCTAD, addressed how buyers and sellers can advance the emerging global GHG market and what can be done to enhance the capacity of developing countries to participate in this market. | | | He emphasized that the Kyoto Protocol is untested and not flawed and noted that a signal from the Forum to COP-7 is that the Forum attempted to start this testing. |
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| | Trade and Transport Facilitation: A Toolkit for Audit, Analysis and Remedial Actions | | | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD | | | Submit good reference documents for the GFP librar... |
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| | StDEv |
| | UNCTAD will set up a network of centres of excellence on science and technology in developing countries, to be funded initially by a US$ 500,000 grant from the government of Italy. | | | This tool was developed by UNCTAD and UNCSTD to provide policy-makers in developing countries with a useful interactive tool to assess their countries' ICT capabilities in terms of connectivity and ease of access and to compare them against those of other countries. | | | This report updates UNCTAD's ICT Development Indices to benchmark ICT development and review trends in the digital divide. |
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| | UNCTAD XI - Sao Paulo, Brazil, 13-18 June 2004 |
| | Featuring recent analysis and reflections on the UNCTAD XI by individuals and NGOs. | | | Featuring meetings related to the UNCTAD XI, including intergovernmental and civil society events and/or their respective reports. | | | The conference was held in Sao Paolo, Brazil from 13-18 June 2004 and was revolving around the following theme: "Enhancing the coherence between national development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth and development, particularly of developing countries". |
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| | World "on brink of dangerous precipice" UNCTAD |
| | The decline in consumer confidence is likely to be further reinforced as the effects of layoffs due to corporate restructuring spread throughout the economy". | | | UNCTAD reports that excessive financial liberalisation has created a world where international private financial flows have broken free from supervision and regulation. | | | UNCTAD envisages two scenarios for the US economy; a normal cyclical downturn which will quickly bring about adjustments, to be followed by a rapid recovery; or alternatively, a sustained period of disinvestment, producing a recession similar to that in Japan in the early 1990s. |
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| | UNCTAD.ORG >> Digital Library |
| | STATE CONTRACTS, UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (UNCTAD/ITE/IIT/2004/11) | | | INCENTIVES, UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (UNCTAD/ITE/IIT/2003/5) | | | UNCTAD’s Reference Service would be ready to assist readers in identifying printed or electronic publications, including CD-ROMs and On-line databases that might be of interest to readers. |
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| | UNCTAD promotes toxic waste dumping in Asia |
| | Asian countries, particularly Thailand, India and the Philippines are among the most preferred dumping grounds for the West’s hazardous wastes, which enter these countries in the pretext of being wastes destined for recycling. | | | BANGKOK/AMSTERDAM, 11 February, 2000:—The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 11. | | | The two organisations accused the UN body of becoming a willing tool of a powerful minority of industries and industrial nations, such as US, Canada, Australia and Japan, who seek to keep the gates of Asia open to receive their poisonous waste. |
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| | Parliamentary Meeting - UNCTAD X |
| | Participation in the meeting permitted them to obtain first-hand information about the main issues and thrusts of the intergovernmental Conference, to contribute to the elaboration of parliamentary recommendations to UNCTAD X, and to establish contacts that could be pursued in the course of consultations between national delegations. | | | The meeting was open to all MPs attending the UNCTAD X session as part of their national delegations, as well as to any other MPs delegated by their IPU National Groups to take part in the parliamentary event. | | | This version requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free of charge. |
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| | Nation-020500-UNCTAD |
| | Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos also invited Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai to Havana for an April summit of leaders of developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere, Surin said. | | | China's economic and trade vice minister, Zhou Kerin, would lead a delegation of 22 to the Bangkok meeting. | | | Fu said the upcoming Unctad meeting would be the first important international meeting to discuss world economic issues in the new millennium. |
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| | Unctad-ITC to give technical training: WTO requirements -DAWN - Business; 11 December, 2004 |
| | KARACHI, Dec 10: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) and International Trade Centre (ITC) have joined hands to provide technical assistance to the developing countries including Pakistan for complying with the World Trade Organization's (WTO) trade related requirements. | | | This was stated by Laurent Matile of ITC who along with Luca Monge of Unctad held a meeting with FPCCI Vice-Presidents Engr. | | | M.A. Jabbar and Haroon Rashid, at Federation House, said a press release issued here on Friday. |
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| | StDev -- Biotechnology |
| | "Key Issues in Biotechnology", Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, UNCTAD, 2002 | | | Intergovernmental deliberations ¦ UNCTAD Projects and Programmes ¦UNCTAD Studies and Publications ¦ Selected UN programmes and agencies |
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| | Róbinson Rojas.- UNCTAD: Documents and papers for UNCTAD X - (12-19 February 2000).- RRojas Databank: Analysis and ... |
| | Summary of the General Debate 12-18 February prepared by the UNCTAD secretariat. | | | Róbinson Rojas.- UNCTAD: Documents and papers for UNCTAD X - (12-19 February 2000).- RRojas Databank: Analysis and Information on economics, development, research methods, globalization, poverty, sustainability, environment, human rights, China, Chile, Asia, Africa, Latin America, America Latina. | | | GLOBALIZATION, REGIONALISM AND AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT AGENDA, paper prepared by the Economic Commission for Africa - Commission économique pour l'Afrique for UNCTAD X |
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| | The Global EMPRETEC Network to promote SME development by fostering entrepreneurship |
| | It also features the articles on banks' financing to SMEs, TNC-SME Linkages programme, Partnership for Small Enterprise Development and also other News briefs. | | | The third substantive item (item 5) covers electronic commerce strategies for development. | | | This newsletter brings you the information on several events that were held during UNCTAD XI in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
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| | Fórum da Sociedade Civil - XI UNCTAD |
| | 16/6: Minister Miguel Rosseto takes part in Ethical and Solidarity Trade session at CSF; speakers ask for Unctad support | | | The civil society organisations authorized by Unctad, with the support of their respective member States, to take part in the event have started their activities on June 11th, two days before the official programme begins, with the aim of drawing up an international Civil Society declaration for Unctad XI. | | | 15/6: CSF presents the Statement to Unctad XI |
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| | The independent journal of UNCTAD XI, São paulo, Brazil, June 13-18, 2004 |
| | UNCTAD XI: Witness to Dramatic Turnaround in Global Politics | | | UNCTAD is the political forum to determine the future of global trade, says Rubens Ricupero | | | UNCTAD XI was very productive, in itself and in the numerous parallel meetings it attracted to Sao Paulo, says Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. |
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