UNCTAD's analysis shows that trade liberalization can lead to economic growth."
UNCTAD的分析表明，贸易自由化可以促进经济增长。
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (
UNCTAD) plays a crucial role in international trade policy.
联合国贸易和发展会议（
UNCTAD）在国际贸易政策中扮演着至关重要的角色。
UNCTAD has been advocating for fairer trade practices for developing countries."
UNCTAD一直在倡导对发展中国家更为公平的贸易实践。
The report by
UNCTAD highlights the importance of digital trade in today's global economy."
UNCTAD的报告强调了当今全球经济中数字贸易的重要性。
UNCTAD's research indicates that foreign direct investment (FDI) is vital for developing economies."
UNCTAD的研究表明，外国直接投资（FDI）对于发展经济至关重要。
UNCTAD provides technical assistance to help countries improve their trade policies."
UNCTAD提供技术援助以帮助各国改善其贸易政策。
The conference was organized by
UNCTAD to discuss issues related to global trade and development.
这次会议由
UNCTAD组织，旨在讨论与全球贸易和开发相关的问题。
UNCTAD's advocacy for sustainable trade practices has gained significant traction globally."
UNCTAD倡导可持续贸易实践在全球范围内获得了显著的影响力。
UNCTAD's work focuses on promoting fair trade, investment, and development opportunities worldwide."
UNCTAD的工作重点是促进全球公平贸易、投资和发展机会。
The
UNCTAD report suggests that regional trade agreements could boost economic integration."
UNCTAD的报告建议，区域贸易协定可以推动经济一体化。
Alibaba's eFounders Fellowship program, a joint initiative by the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and Alibaba Business School, has so far trained 165 young entrepreneurs globally to help them with their internet startups.
The 11-day course is part of a commitment by Jack Ma, Alibaba Group's founder and executive chairman and UNCTAD special advisor, to empower 1,000 entrepreneurs from developing countries in five years, the company said on Monday.
"We want to reach out to youth and include them in the work we do for inclusive and sustainable economic growth," Arlette Verploegh, coordinator for the eFounders Initiative at UNCTAD, said in a statement.
Ma, the founder of the world's largest e-commerce trading platform, Alibaba, is visiting Kenya in a tour arranged by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), to promote global entrepreneurship and to mentor young and upcoming entrepreneurs.
The lecture, attended by the Kenyan minister of information and Communication Joe Mucheru and UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi, explored e-commerce and entrepreneurship skills.
New drivers of foreign tradeIn a December forecast, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said that the outlook for 2024 remains "highly uncertain" and "generally pessimistic," and predicted that global trade in 2023 would fall by around 5 percent compared to the 2022 level.
Ongoing geopolitical tensions, lower demand in developed countries, an uptick in trade-restrictive measures, commodity price volatility and lengthening supply chains were among the factors weighing on trade, UNCTAD warned.
He listed factors such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that might have caused a lag in investment data, bearing in mind the long cycle of investors' investment decisions, geopolitics and the overall shrinkage in the scale of global FDI, which fell to $1.3 trillion in 2022, down by about 12 percent year-on-year, according to UNCTAD data.
This is the first use of "Digital human plus AI" technology in the history of UNCTAD, which is a demonstration of Beijing's innovative spirit in promoting the application of cutting-edge technologies.
Heads of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Trade Center (ITC) and other international organizations headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, have expressed their optimism about China's economic fundamentals and China's economic development trajectory in recent interviews with Xinhua.
UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan said that China's contribution to global economic growth is higher than those of other major economies.
The combined GDP of its members comprises nearly one-third the global total, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD.
Although the latest data from China were weaker than expected, China still can reach 8 percent growth rate as the country has a lot of fiscal and monetary space, saidxa0Richard Kozul-Wright, UNCTAD's director of the division on globalization and development strategies, to China Daily website.
In the report, the UNCTAD also calls for bold support for developing nations in vaccine deployment.
A developing Asia is the only region recording FDI growth, accounting for more than half of global inward and outward FDI flows," James Zhan, UNCTAD's director of investment and enterprise, said in a statement.
The global trade recovery from the COVID-19 crisis hit a record high in the first quarter of 2021, up 10 percent year-over-year, and China is expected to be one of the main drivers of the growth, said a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Wednesday.
China has what could be one of the most unprecedented stories of economic development in recent history, UN agency UNCTAD said on Tuesday.
UNCTAD also believes China is likely to remain the world's leading exporter in the near future.
In an unprecedented leadership reshuffle, international trade is now spearheaded by three women from three different continents, as all of Geneva's top trade organizations -- the WTO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Center (ITC) -- have become female-led over the past couple of months.
The next day, Isabelle Durant of Belgium assumed her role as deputy secretary-general of the UNCTAD, a permanent body of the UN since 1964.
It has to become totally normal, and I hope that in the next generation this will be the case," noted the leader of UNCTAD.
"The WTO, UNCTAD and ITC face the collective challenge of charting a path forward for global recovery.
Zhan Xiaoning, an official in charge of investment and enterprises at UNCTAD, said China's rapid economic recovery and investment facilitation policies played a crucial role in boosting foreign investment.
Zhan Xiaoning, an official in charge of investment and enterprises at UNCTAD, said China's fast economic recovery and investment facilitation policies played a crucial role in boosting foreign investment.
The article, published Sunday on Forbes' website, cited a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which said that China became the world's top recipient of investment flows in 2020.
"Global foreign direct investment (FDI) plunged by 42 percent in 2020, while FDI flows to China rose by 4 percent to $163 billion, making the country the world's largest recipient in 2020, followed by the United States, according to the UNCTAD report on Sunday.
UNCTAD attributed China's resilient performance to its leading position in controlling the pandemic and resuming production relatively early.
A UNCTAD report forecast a drop in global foreign direct investment (FDI) flow as deep as 40% in 2020.
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) believes that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement signed among its 15 participating countries could give a significant boost to foreign direct investment in the region.
The UNCTAD warned that the agreement comes at a time of "major upheaval" caused by COVID-19.
"The UNCTAD said that investment policy priorities for the partnership should include boosting investment in infrastructure, clean energy and healthcare, supporting resilience-seeking FDI, as well as promoting investment for development in least developed country signatories.
For the full year, UNCTAD said that the outlook remained in line with earlier projections of a 30-40 percent decrease.
"For the first six months of the year, UNCTAD's data showed that new greenfield investment project announcements dropped by 37 percent, cross-border mergers and acquisitions fell by 15 percent, and newly announced cross-border project finance deals, an important source of investment in infrastructure, declined by 25 percent.
“根据UNCTAD的数据，今年上半年，新建绿地投资项目的公告数量下降了37%，跨境并购活动减少了15%，而作为基础设施投资重要来源的新公布的跨境项目融资交易也下滑了25%。”
FDI flows to developing economies decreased by a less than expected 16 percent, UNCTAD said, with flows 28 percent lower in Africa, 25 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean and 12 percent in Asia, mainly due to resilient investment in China.
UNCTAD表示，流入发展中经济体的外国直接投资（FDI）下降幅度小于预期，降幅为16%。其中，非洲地区降幅达28%，拉丁美洲和加勒比地区降幅为25%，亚洲地区降幅为12%，这主要归因于中国对投资的强大吸引力和韧性，使得该地区的投资相对稳定。
The lower-than-expected decline was cushioned by an 84 percent rise in the value of M&A transactions, mostly in information services and e-commerce industries, explained James Zhan, UNCTAD's director of investment and enterprise.
詹姆斯·詹（UNCTAD投资和企业司司长）解释说，信息服务业和电子商务行业的并购交易价值大幅增长了84%，这在一定程度上缓解了低于预期的下滑幅度。
UNCTAD last month warned of a "lost decade" and forecast the global economy to contract by 4.3 percent this year, while expecting a return to positive territory with a gross domestic product growth rate of 4.1 percent in 2021.
上个月，联合国贸易和发展会议（UNCTAD）警告称可能出现“失去的十年”，并预测今年全球经济将收缩4.3%，但预计2021年经济会重回正增长轨道，实现4.1%的国内生产总值增长率。
The next regular issue of UNCTAD's Investment Trends Monitor will be released in mid-January 2021.
UNCTAD的下一期《投资趋势监测报告》将于2021年1月中旬发布。
The world's second-largest economy has made this achievement amid a December forecast by the UNCTAD that predicted global trade in 2023 would contract by 4.5 percent compared to the 2022 level, with trade in goods expected to contract by nearly 7.5 percent.
- The Shanghai port in China has topped the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 ranking of the world's best-connected ports in 2019.
"A container port's performance is a critical factor that can determine transport costs and, by extension, trade competitiveness," said UNCTAD's director of technology and logistics, Shamika N. Sirimanne in a statement released on Wednesday.
UNCTAD's port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index dataset enables businesses and governments to determine maritime transport trends and their ports' positions compared to others.
These latest datasets complement other maritime statistics and indicators provided by UNCTAD to measure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In the second edition of the Creative Economy Outlook: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries, released on Monday, UNCTAD examines the global creative industry between 2002 and 2015 and offers profiles of 130 countries, with China's performance standing out.
China has become the largest recipient of FDI in the first half of 2018, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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