Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD Update: Zambian cotton entrepreneur goes beyond the fibre
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD Update (23-31 May)
Our latest?news, thought leadership and events
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This week?Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD also told the story of how a Zambian entrepreneur is trying to improve the import imbalance for its cotton yield. Zambia produces about 55,000 metric tons of raw cotton each year but imports most of the cotton wool products consumed in the country. Read more in , or .
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD's integrated customs management system, ASYCUDA, is expected to be a game-changer in customs processing in Iraq and improve ease of doing business in the country. .
This week Sweden contributed?$480,000 to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD's work on e-commerce. The funds will help Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD enhance developing countries' capacity to participate in the digital economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. .
A new online course was also launched Online course enhances capacity of trade data compilers?A course on international merchandise trade statistics boosts participants' knowledge on goods movement data between countries and areas. .
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Upcoming events
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD15 civil society discussion on frontier technologies, the digital economy and development, 4?June, 8am?(ET)
Join us for a pre-event on the road to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD15. This discussion is the second part of a series of online discussions with civil society held in preparation for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD15 ministerial conference.?The dialogue aims to raise awareness of civil society representatives on the issues of technology transfer, e-commerce and the digital economy. The outcome of the session will be presented to member states as part of the intergovernmental preparatory process for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD15. Find out .
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United Nations Trade Forum, 14-15?June 2021
Join Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD for our second Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Trade Forum in mid-June. It looks at how to make trade and trade policy foster a green and inclusive recovery.?With the COVID-19 crisis and the climate emergency negatively impacting the three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental), what the world needs is a more coherent policy mix to protect the planet and ensure more inclusive development. Inevitably, this must include trade policy. However, designing a coherent policy mix is a challenge. to?hear proposed solutions.?
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD Prebisch Lecture, 15?June, 10am-12pm (ET)
The 17th Ra¨²l Prebisch Lecture will be given by Esther Duflo, Nobel laureate and Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Join us for the online broadcast of this prestigious lecture. ?or watch it live on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD's Facebook channel.
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This newsletter was prepared?by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD New York Office of the Secretary-General
Email:?Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTADNY2@un.org
Visit our? for more on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD¡¯s work in monitoring the effects of the global pandemic on manufacturing, trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth and new resources we offer to address them.
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