Tag: Global economy
DDG Wolff: Trade, global cooperation can best deliver adequate medical supplies
09 Sep 20 NewsInternational trade and cooperation among WTO members are vital to ensure sufficient supplies of medical devices during the COVID-19 crisis, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said...
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Remarks by Minister Ebrahim Patel at the Global Industrial and Manufacturing Summit, Video Recording, 4 September 2020
Covid-19 caused disruptions to supply-lines o...
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Covid wave brings second quarter slide (The Mail & Guardian)
South Africans should brace themselves for a further slump in the economy, as gross domestic produc...
G20 Foreign Ministers to strengthen international cooperation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
04 Sep 20 NewsThe G20 Foreign Ministers held an extraordinary meeting to discuss enhancing international cooperation to recover from the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic as well as strengthening pre...
Make COVID recovery ‘a true turning point’ for people and planet, Guterres urges, calling for concerted action by G20
04 Sep 20 NewsUN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on governments to incorporate “meaningful” climate action in all aspects of recovery from the global pandemic.
Addressing mi...
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02 Sep 20 NewsBreaking: Nigeria’s foreign trade drops to N6.24 trillion, trade balance hits N1.8 trillion deficit (Nairametrics)
The value of Nigeria's total foreign merchandise trade stood a...
Amid fears of worst recession in decades, urgent calls for solidarity, a united economic front
23 Jul 20 NewsWith multilateral cooperation under strain, senior UN officials, Nobel laureates and eminent academic experts, gathered virtually on Wednesday for the launch of a new report recomm...
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20 Jul 20 NewsCall for Papers: AfDB/UNECA/UNDP African Economic Conference 2020 for young African researchers
Request for Proposals: Undertake feasibility study, design, establish and provide a...
Productivity growth, key driver of poverty reduction, threatened by COVID-19 disruptions
15 Jul 20 NewsFirst Comprehensive Study on Challenges and Opportunities to Rekindle Productivity Growth
Productivity growth, a force that has contributed to lifting millions of people out of po...
UN report sends ‘sobering message’ of deeply entrenched hunger globally
15 Jul 20 NewsIn much of the world, “hunger remains deeply entrenched and is rising”, the UN chief said on Monday, launching this year’s major UN food security update, highlighting that ov...
‘New dynamic’ needed to overcome negative impacts of COVID-19 worldwide
08 Jul 20 NewsThe dramatic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, have laid bare “weaknesses in our systems and societies”, a top official told the UN’s key international forum on sustainable d...
Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cautious Reopening
29 Jun 20 NewsThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to represent an unprecedented health and economic crisis, with costs that will be felt most keenly by the poorest segments of the world’s populati...
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24 Jun 20 NewsUNCTAD’s latest Policy Brief: Making trade agreements work for gender equality - exploring data gaps and availability
SADC Council approves revised regional guidelines to ease c...
Joint Statement of the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19
17 Jun 20 NewsThe COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge to humankind, and is the most serious global public health emergency since the end of World War II.
To defeat COVID-19 through greater s...
Global trade continues nosedive, UNCTAD forecasts 20% drop in 2020
12 Jun 20 NewsNew data shows a worrying deterioration of trade for developing countries and a continued struggle for the automotive and energy sectors, while office equipment rebounds.
Internat...
Private sector leaders commit to mobilizing resources to build back better from COVID-19
11 Jun 20 NewsIn a meeting convened by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 10 June, leaders of prominent financial institutions and businesses pledged to scale-up sustainable i...
COVID-19 to plunge global economy into worst recession since World War II
09 Jun 20 NewsThe global economic outlook during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A changed world
The swift and massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown measures to contain it have plunged ...
COVID-19: Act now or risk ‘unimaginable devastation’ globally, warns UN chief
29 May 20 NewsUnless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, UN Secretary-General António Gu...
COVID-19 heightens need for pharmaceutical production in poor countries
27 May 20 NewsUNCTAD and the WHO have teamed up to respond to the urgent call to boost local production of essential medicines in developing countries.
With more than 100 projects to develop a ...
PSC Report comment: towards a new post-COVID-19 world order?
21 May 20 NewsWe are likely to see increased competition between the US and China, rising nationalism and weak global leadership.
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality o...