Despite the fall in overall investment, Unctad said the influence of transnational corporations was continuing to grow.
UNCTAD's project on market access, notes that poor countries often fail to fill Europe's existing preferential import quotas.
UNCTAD, an agency dealing with trade and development, knew of 290 in 2007.
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The UNCTAD says these countries are particularly ill-equipped to develop their domestic economies and to ensure an adequate standard of living for their populations.
And later in February, developing countries meeting at the Unctad summit in Bangkok are expected to debate the way forward on the trade talks.
An authority in the field, Rutten gave up his job in the commodities branch of unctad in 2006 when he got sold on Shah's ideas.
That is why the CBD is cooperating closely with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to foster such markets through its Biotrade Initiative.
According to a 2007 report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), most Haitian graduates will emigrate to another country rather than stay in Haiti.
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that between 65% to 85% of food-related emissions in the Western hemisphere is created once produce has left the farm.
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), foreign direct investment (FDI) was one of the main casualties of the global slowdown last year.
The WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank and OECD continue to monitor progress countries have made in reducing tariffs and liberalizing trading systems, including reducing entry barriers in key sectors.
Rubens Ricupero, Unctad's Secretary General, has been promoting the meeting on February 12-17 as a "world parliament on globalisation" that is urgently needed after the failure in Seattle.
Michel Camdessus's final days at the IMF's helm are most vividly remembered for a face-full of anti-globalization cream pie he got at the UNCTAD meeting in Bangkok last month.
This multistakeholder and high-level event will be co-organized by UNESCO, ITU, UNDP and UNCTAD and will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 25 to 27 February 2013.
The three-day event is hosted by UNESCO and co-organized with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
According to UNCTAD, corporate investors still believe in China.
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"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
Briefing the meeting, the Executive Secretary of the Conference, Anna Kajumulo, said country-level preparatory processes had been launched in 46 least developed countries with country visits by members of the United Nations Conference Trade and Development (UNCTAD) secretariat.
According to UNCTAD, the international community in 1971 recognized the existence of a category of countries whose distinctness lies not only in the profound poverty of their people, but also in the weakness of their economic, institutional and human resources.
During its private meeting, Members of the Board received a briefing from the President of the World Bank, the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, and the Executive Heads of WTO, ILO and UNCTAD on the current world economic situation.
The slow and bumpy recovery of the global economy, weak global demand and elevated risks related to regulatory policy changes continue to reinforce the wait-and-see attitude of many multinationals toward investment abroad, UNCTAD said in a statement on their website yesterday.
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The UNCTAD says that despite major policy reforms initiated by many of these countries, and supportive measures taken by a number of donors in the areas of aid, debt relief and trade, the economic situation of the LDCs as a whole worsened during the 1980s.
Managed by the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and funded by the European Commission, this four-year pilot project implemented jointly by the ILO, UNCTAD and UNESCO aims to strengthen the creative industries in Fiji, Mozambique, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago and Zambia.
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