Disruptions persist in maritime transport, challenging its resilience
Infrastructure, including transport infrastructure, significantly impacts the attainment of all SDGs, influencing 92 per cent of the 169 individual targets
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UNCTAD sub-themes
UNCTAD sub-themes
Digital technologies are key to economic diversification
Digitalization has changed the way that people produce, consume, trade and live . Narrowing the technological gap and closing the
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Productive capacities analysis key to reducing vulnerabilities in graduating LDCs
The Bridgetown Covenant underscores UNCTAD’s pivotal role in “formulating and promoting policies fostering productive capacities and structural transformation in developing
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Escalating debt challenges are inhibiting achievement of the SDGs
Cascading crises and a challenging global macroeconomic environment, characterized by tightening financial conditions, higher interest rates, US dollar appreciation, growth
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Efforts to track illicit financial flows need scaling up
In Bridgetown, member States expressed their great concern over the negative impact of IFFs on sustainable development, especially in developing
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Attaining the SDGs through trade
The Bridgetown Covenant underlined trade as a powerful source of economic transformation, and an effective engine to reduce poverty .
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Tariff trends mostly downwards, but non-tariff measures increasingly used
Multilateral and regional integration are complementary elements of the global trade system. The Bridgetown Covenant underlined the importance “to strengthen
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International trade in open and transparent markets may help alleviate the effects of shocks and ensure food security
Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda aims to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”
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