News Archive
- Tightening the net: Developing countries brace for tougher fishing regime
- Released: 2 Sep 2009
- Study warns of potential threat from incoming EU regulation
- Commonwealth publication sheds light on recent development trends
- Released: 2 Sep 2009
- Statistics on the amount of foreign investment in small states, for instance, indicate that private investors are willing to inject considerable amounts of money, even where there is no promise of natural resources.
- Investment Guide to the Silk Road launched in China
- Released: 3 Sep 2009
- As a step towards revitalizing the Silk Road region as a trading and investment location, UNCTAD´s Investment Guide to the Silk Road was launched during the Sixth International Investment Promotion Conference in China.
- Launch of UNCTAD TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009
- Released: 3 Sep 2009
- WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy hopes New Delhi meeting can be “the beginning of the endgame of the Doha Round”
- Released: 3 Sep 2009
- Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi on 3 September 2009, said the most efficient means for countries to deal with the economic crisis “remains the multilateral Doha Development Round”.
- Female salt miners in Uganda take the lead with British Government's help
- Released: 11 Sep 2009
- The results of a project to give women salt miners in Uganda a voice and decision-making power for the first time were today announced at the CASM (Communities and Artisanal and Small Scale Mining) conference in Mozambique.
- A Report on G20 Trade and Investment Measures was issued jointly prepared by three organizations -- UNCTAD, WTO and OECD
- Released: 14 Sep 2009
- UNCTAD-WTO-OECD ReportA Report on G20 Trade and Investment Measures was issued today, jointly prepared by three organizations -- UNCTAD, WTO and OECD -- in response to the G20 Leaders request made at their last summit in London on 2 April 2009.
- G20 governments refrain from extensive use of restrictive measures, but some slippage evident
- Released: 14 Sep 2009
- G20 Governments have refrained from extensive use of restrictive trade and investment measures in recent months but have continued, in a limited way, to apply tariffs and non-tariff instruments that have hindered trade flows, the heads of the OECD, UNCTAD and the WTO indicated in a joint report to G-20 leaders meeting in Pittsburgh later this month.
- World must act now on climate change, says major report
- Released: 15 Sep 2009
- The world's richest countries must act urgently to help developing countries reduce their carbon emissions, according to a new report from the World Bank
- Keeping kids at school: Millennium Development Goal ‘at risk’
- Released: 15 Sep 2009
- The principle that no child should be deprived of an education has been extolled as an essential development goal for decades. Yet, according to one new study launched this week, major hurdles remain to its fulfilment.
- UN to Establish Single New Agency to Deal with Rights of Women
- Released: 15 Sep 2009
- United Nations, New York — Four United Nations agencies and offices will be amalgamated to create a new single entity within the Organization to promote the rights and well-being of women worldwide and to work towards gender equality.
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs delivers 14th Prebisch Lecture on Globalization in the Era of Environmental Crisis
- Released: 15 Sep 2009
- The world really is unsustainable right now and steps should be taken rapidly by governments responsibly to reduce population growth and to work together to make the technological progress needed to keep climate change and other environmental problems from sooner or later causing immense human catastrophe.
- Asia-Pacific Region to Mark 15th Anniversary of Cairo Summit on Population and Development
- Released: 15 Sep 2009
- BANGKOK (UN/ESCAP Information Services and UN Population Fund) – A high-level United Nations meeting this week will seek redoubled efforts by countries to reach population and development targets as a crucial step towards alleviating poverty and achieving sustainable and inclusive development.
- Lamy urges G20 leaders to throw their weight behind a Doha deal
- Released: 16 Sep 2009
- 56th Session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board “Evolution of the international trading system and of international trade from a development perspective: Impact of the crisis”
- Asian Governments Pledge to Complete Cairo Reproductive Health Agenda
- Released: 17 Sep 2009
- UN meeting seeks to accelerate progress towards population goals for 2015
- Despite continued rise in unemployment, measures taken by G20 governments will save up to 11 million jobs in 2009, ILO says
- Released: 18 Sep 2009
- GENEVA (ILO News) – Employment and social protection measures taken by G20 governments since the economic crisis began will have created or saved an estimated 7 to 11 million jobs in the G20 countries this year, the Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a communication (Note 1) to be presented to the G20 Summit to be held in Pittsburgh on 24-25 September
- World Bank Provides US$4.3 Billion to Support India’s Economic Stimulus, Infrastructure Investments
- Released: 22 Sep 2009
- The World Bank today approved four projects worth US$4.3 billion to India, designed to support the Government’s infrastructure agenda and bolster its economic stimulus program.
- Commonwealth conference boosts developing countries’ ability to monitor foreign debt liabilities
- Released: 22 Sep 2009
- Central bankers and economists from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America gathered in London last week to help avert financial crises caused by rampant private sector borrowing.
- Commonwealth Discussion Paper examines the nature of the global downturn and its implications
- Released: 23 Sep 2009
- Latest Discussion Paper examines the nature of the global downturn and its implications
- Leaders Commit New Finance to Tackle Women’s and Children’s Health in the Developing World
- Released: 23 Sep 2009
- An innovative health financing taskforce set up by world leaders twelve months ago is today announcing a series of new financing measures worth US$5.3 billion to save millions of women and children in developing countries, whose lives are under increased threat during the global economic crisis
- Civil society to discuss better global governance at WTO’s Public Forum
- Released: 24 Sep 2009
- During the course of the three day meeting, 28-30 September, participants can choose to attend 44 interactive workshops covering the full spectrum of trade related issues and concerns.
- Heads of UN Agencies and ADB Chief in Bangkok Stamp Their Votes to ‘Seal the Deal’
- Released: 25 Sep 2009
- G20 commit to Putting Quality Jobs at the Heart of the Recovery
- Released: 25 Sep 2009
- Leaders of the G20 have welcomed the ILO Global Jobs Pact and the building of “an employment-oriented framework for future economic growth”.
- UK commits to new deal for African agriculture
- Released: 26 Sep 2009
- The UK has signed up to a new action plan that will help lift millions out of poverty and hunger by supporting African governments’ agricultural development strategies.
- Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group - Concluding Statement
- Released: 26 Sep 2009
- The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on the Harare Declaration (CMAG) held its thirty-second regular meeting in New York on 26 September 2009.
- UN Secretary-General Calls for Women’ s Equal Participation in Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change
- Released: 28 Sep 2009
- “Women are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” said Ban Ki-moon in his message, delivered by Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
- Asia-Pacific Countries Need Assistance to Achieve Green Agenda Goals, UN Official Says
- Released: 28 Sep 2009
- ESCAP Chief speaks at opening of Bangkok climate talks
- G20 must now “walk the talk” on Doha says WTO DG Pascal Lamy
- Released: 28 Sep 2009
- G20 must now “walk the talk” on Doha — Lamy
