Tag: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

• Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Wars and climate change to blame for slowdown in world commerce, UN official says

  

  A high-ranking United Nations (UN) official warned last week that worldwide commerce was threatened by climate change and wars such as the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

• Thursday, December 1st 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  UNCTAD forecasts economic slowdown in 2023 with dramatic drop of shipping activity

  

  The pace of global shipping activity is set to lose steam next year as economic turmoil, conflict in Ukraine and the impact of the pandemic weaken the outlook for trade, U.N. agency UNCTAD said this week.

• Friday, October 16th 2015 - 08:03 UTC

  World's commercial fleet with lowest annual growth in a decade during 2014, says UNCTAD

  

  The world's commercial fleet grew by 3.5% during the 12 months to Jan 1, 2015, the lowest annual growth rate in over a decade, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reveals in its Review of Maritime Transport 2015.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2015 - 07:26 UTC

  The 'big three' credit rating agencies questioned by UN for their 'subjectivity'

  

  Credit ratings agencies have been questioned by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), who says they favor countries with a certain ideological bent.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 07:35 UTC

  Economists' open letter to UN: political power must be preeminent in handling economic policy

  

  European countries must support the United Nations’ proposals for sovereign debt restructuring! – Open letter to the UN by 19 economists.On Thursday September 10, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on nine principles concerning the restructuring of sovereign debts.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

  UN committee agrees on nine principles for restructuring sovereign debts

  

  A United Nations committee, after six months work, on Tuesday, unanimously adopted a “historic” report that establishes nine principles for restructuring sovereign debt, the committee's chair Sacha Llorenti of Bolivia told reporters.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentina's situation “will not develop into a regional financial crisis”, says UNCTAD

  

  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said that while Argentina was facing potential financial instability, its solvency and the sound macroeconomic fundamentals in other countries of the region “should prevent the shock from developing into a regional financial crisis.”