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UNEP Inquiry shows how to align global finance with sustainable development

UNEP Inquiry shows how to align global finance with sustainable development

09 Oct 2015
The heartland of the global economy, the financial system, can evolve to serve its core purpose of growing and sustaining the real economy. A new UNEP report released at the Inter...
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Improving market access for the least developed countries in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Improving market access for the least developed countries in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

09 Oct 2015
A new UNCTAD Policy Brief focuses on key questions concerning how to achieve target 17.11 of the Global Goals though improving market access conditions faced by the least developed...
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Food prices lower for longer

Food prices lower for longer

09 Oct 2015
FAO maps decline in both trade volumes and volatility for key agricultural commodities Agricultural commodities are going through a period of lower and less volatile prices, accor...
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East and West Africa build trade ties

East and West Africa build trade ties

09 Oct 2015
Kenyan and Ghanaian government officials are set to gather in November, with the aim of opening new economic frontiers to boost development and intra African trade between the coun...
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tralac’s Daily News selection: 8 October 2015

tralac’s Daily News selection: 8 October 2015

08 Oct 2015
The selection: Thursday, 8 October Pascal Lamy, José María Figueres, Oby Ezekwesili : ‘A fish called development’ (Policy Innovations) When political leaders meet at the 10...
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World undergoing major population shift with far-reaching implications for migration, poverty, development: WB/IMF Report

World undergoing major population shift with far-reaching implications for migration, poverty, development: WB/IMF Report

08 Oct 2015
As migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East continue to arrive in Europe in unprecedented numbers, a new World Bank/IMF report says that large-scale migration from poo...
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Broadening the sources of growth in Africa: The role of investment

Broadening the sources of growth in Africa: The role of investment

08 Oct 2015
A new UNCTAD Policy Brief argues that enhancing the contribution of investment to the growth and development process in Africa will require three complementary policy measures: boo...
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How fiscal policy can tame the commodities roller coaster

How fiscal policy can tame the commodities roller coaster

08 Oct 2015
Resource-rich economies face enormous challenges to manage volatile and unpredictable commodity prices. In its latest Fiscal Monitor, the IMF examines how countries can tax and spe...
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UNEP Executive Director welcomes illegal wildlife trade provisions in TPP

UNEP Executive Director welcomes illegal wildlife trade provisions in TPP

08 Oct 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal contains unprecedented provisions to combat illegal wildlife trade. UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner releas...
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Mauritius eyes maritime projects, Africa links to boost growth

Mauritius eyes maritime projects, Africa links to boost growth

08 Oct 2015
Mauritius has a deal with a Chinese firm to develop a $113 million fishing port and is working with investors on plans to become a maritime hub for Africa, part of its bid to accel...
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tralac’s Daily News selection: 7 October 2015

tralac’s Daily News selection: 7 October 2015

07 Oct 2015
The selection: Wednesday, 7 October The TPP deal gets done: what does it mean for developing countries? (CGD) From information available so far, it looks like there were improvem...
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As volatile financial markets create rumblings in developing countries, UNCTAD report calls for fresh policy thinking

As volatile financial markets create rumblings in developing countries, UNCTAD report calls for fresh policy thinking

07 Oct 2015
For most developing economies, integration into global financial markets has up to now had only weak linkages to their long-term development goals, the UNCTAD Trade and Development...
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G20-OECD Global Forum on International Investment 2015: International investment policies in the evolving global economy

G20-OECD Global Forum on International Investment 2015: International investment policies in the evolving global economy

07 Oct 2015
Report on the Global Forum on International Investment (GFII), 5 October 2015, Istanbul Ministers and High Officials from more than ten G-20 and non-G20 countries, Heads of Intern...
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Istanbul G20 Trade Ministers Meeting: Presentation of the OECD-WBG inclusive global value chains report

Istanbul G20 Trade Ministers Meeting: Presentation of the OECD-WBG inclusive global value chains report

07 Oct 2015
Presentation of the OECD-World Bank Group report, “Inclusive Global Value Chains: Policy options in trade and complementary areas for GVC integration by small and medium ent...
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ICC Banking Commission Global Survey highlights impact of trade finance gap on SMEs

ICC Banking Commission Global Survey highlights impact of trade finance gap on SMEs

07 Oct 2015
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission has released the results from its 2015 Global Survey on trade finance – highlighting the impact of the trade financ...
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CAR: Companies must not profit from blood diamonds

CAR: Companies must not profit from blood diamonds

07 Oct 2015
The Central African Republic’s (CAR) biggest traders have purchased diamonds worth several million dollars without adequately investigating whether they financed armed groups res...
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G20 urges reforms for global trade growth

G20 urges reforms for global trade growth

07 Oct 2015
G20 trade ministers on Tuesday agreed to pursue deeper and wider reforms to ensure trade growth as it grew less than the global economy for the first time in the last four decades....
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Security bill spat: SA-US relations at risk

Security bill spat: SA-US relations at risk

07 Oct 2015
South Africa is in danger of being sidelined for project funding by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as the US lobbies to scrap the controversial Private Se...
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WTO agrees membership terms for Liberia, paving way for formal decision in Nairobi

WTO agrees membership terms for Liberia, paving way for formal decision in Nairobi

07 Oct 2015
WTO members negotiating Liberia’s accession agreed by consensus, ad referendum, on the terms of the country’s WTO membership on 6 October 2015, paving the way for the eighth le...
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OECD report: Global action plan launched against MNCs avoiding tax

OECD report: Global action plan launched against MNCs avoiding tax

07 Oct 2015
G20 nations announce action plan to fix gaps between tax systems in various countries In a bid to put an end to tax avoidance by multinational companies, a global action plan was ...
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