Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD estimates Gaza needs $71.5 billion for recovery as economic collapse, damaged infrastructure, fiscal pressures, and widespread unemployment deepen humanitarian and development challenges.
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A new expands economic measurement beyond GDP, tracking well-being, equity, inclusion, sustainability, resilience, and data gaps worldwide.
Services now underpin global production and trade, but widening digital gaps limit developing countries’ ability to compete, innovate and benefit from fast-growing digital markets.
The helps developing countries strengthen debt management through peer learning, shared expertise, and collaboration to address rising debt and financing challenges.
Global trade surged in early 2026, driven by strong goods demand, rising prices, and booming AI and electric vehicle supply chains despite geopolitical headwinds.
Commodities can drive growth, but over-reliance leaves economies vulnerable to shocks. helps countries turn data into informed policy decisions.
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 6% to $1.6 trillion in 2025, but , with developing economies seeing limited gains amid uncertainty.
Rising borrowing costs are squeezing developing countries’ budgets, leaving less funding for education, healthcare, infrastructure and climate action while highlighting the need for more affordable long-term finance.
Demand for critical minerals is rising fast. Supply remains highly concentrated. Trade policy is a strategic tool to increase the gains resulting from trade in critical minerals.
New Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD data show that services now account for most of the world’s $2.5 trillion ocean-related trade, overtaking goods and opening new opportunities for developing countries to create value from the ocean while protecting it.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD warns could add $20 billion yearly to import bills, hitting vulnerable economies and worsening poverty globally.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD warns renewable energy investment alone is insufficient; countries need technology, skills, and flexible policies to build local industries.
Non-tariff measures now exceed tariffs as major trade barriers, increasing export costs and harming developing countries’ global competitiveness.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD warns that rising investment in AI and strategic technologies is concentrating capital in a few sectors and countries, increasing the risk that many developing economies will be left behind.
New Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵCTAD dashboard tracks risks across shipping, energy, food and finance as shocks from the Strait of Hormuz spread through the global economy.