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05 Dec 2024 - Global trade set to reach new high, with opportunities and challenges for developing economies in 2025
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/031
Geneva, SwitzerlandUNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/030
Baku, Azerbaijan11 Nov 2024 - UN Trade and Development drives integrated finance, investment, and trade solutions to confront the climate crisis
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/029
Geneva, Switzerland04 Nov 2024 - Leveraging carbon markets for Least Developed Countries
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/028
Geneva, Switzerland29 Oct 2024 - UNCTAD calls for a "rethink" of development strategies amid global economic slowdown and rising social discontent
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/023
Geneva, Switzerland24 Oct 2024 - Joint report explores scope for coordinated approaches on climate action, carbon pricing, and policy spillovers
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/028
GenevaUNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/027
Geneva, SwitzerlandMedia Alert
13 Nov 2024 - UNCTAD’S role in advancing climate and economic justice
UNCTAD/PRESS/MA/2024/017
Geneva, Switzerland
The Weekly Tradecast
Taxing times: How fairer taxes can fund development
The Weekly Tradecast looks at tax with Lorraine Eden, professor emerita of management at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.
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UNCTAD Secretary-General
Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica is the first woman and Central American to serve as UNCTAD’s secretary-general.
Ms. Grynspan is a renowned advocate of human development, who has helped to focus the world’s attention on relevant issues such as the reduction of inequality and poverty, gender equality, South-South cooperation as a tool for development, and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, among others.
A former vice president of Costa Rica, Ms. Grynspan joins UNCTAD from the Ibero-American Conference where she also led the organization as secretary-general.
