UNCTAD
23 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 August 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the European Commission International Trade Centre are working to improve access to information for small farmers and farmer organisations to facilitate increased market participation. To this end, SPC convened a workshop on the establishment of a subregional market information system (MIS) in Suva, Fiji, from 17-19 August 2011.
Participants from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, ...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 November 2010: The Department of Sustainable Economic Development and Trade Department of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Secretariat organized a conference on 23 November 2010, in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss climate change challenges confronting ACP countries.
The conference launched a series of debates on sustainable development in ACP States and gathered ACP ambassadors and high-level speakers including Lucas Assunção, UN Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 November 2010: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published “The Least Developed Countries Report 2010″ which, among other issues, highlights the vulnerability of LDCs to climate impacts. For example, the report indicates that the LDC small island developing states (SIDS) and LDCs in Asia are particularly vulnerable to the impact of storms and are also the least able to cope with the social and economic fallout from climate-related incidents.
Although the LDCs...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2011: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has announced that it is providing technical assistance to the Maldives following the country’s removal from the UN list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) on 1 January 2011.
The UN took the Maldives off the LDC list after finding that its estimated gross national income (GNI) per capita in 2009 was three times over the graduation threshold, due mainly to growth in the tourism sector. The Maldives nevertheless remains one...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 February 2011: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a policy brief proposing a broad agenda for action for the fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC IV), to be held from 9-13 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
The brief makes proposals in five areas: financing for development; the developmental role of trade; international commodity policy; developing technological capabilities; and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
On financing, the brief calls...
