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Trade in Processed Food

Trade in Processed Food

( PDF: February 2024 )

This technical paper focuses on efforts by the WHO and UNCTAD Statistics to define and measure international trade flows in food items according to various levels of processing. It reviews and...

This technical paper focuses on efforts by the WHO and UNCTAD Statistics to define and measure international trade flows in food items according to various levels of processing. It reviews and...


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Towards a Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Tax and Commercial Illicit Financial Flows

Towards a Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Tax and Commercial Illicit Financial Flows

( Print: February 2024, PDF: February 2024 )

This paper focuses on efforts by eleven African countries to measure tax and commercial IFFs. It reviews and assesses development of concepts and methods, and their pilot testing. As such, it draws...

This paper focuses on efforts by eleven African countries to measure tax and commercial IFFs. It reviews and assesses development of concepts and methods, and their pilot testing. As such, it draws...


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SDG Pulse 2022

UNCTAD Takes the Pulse of the SDGs

Series: SDG Pulse
( Print: April 2023, PDF: April 2023 )

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...

SDG pulse provides quantitative assessments of progress with the 2030 Agenda through both a selection of official SDG indicators as well as complementary data and statistics. It also presents recent...


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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade and Development

Lessons Learned

( Print: October 2022, PDF: October 2022 )

This report aims at documenting and assessing shifts that the COVID-19 crisis has triggered in economies, societies and cooperation in UNCTAD’s core areas of work: the integrated treatment of trade...

This report aims at documenting and assessing shifts that the COVID-19 crisis has triggered in economies, societies and cooperation in UNCTAD’s core areas of work: the integrated treatment of trade...


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Sustainable Trade in Resources

Global Material Flows, Circularity and Trade

( Print: December 2020, PDF: January 2021 )

This report looks at trade flows of material resources and their environmental impacts. It also demonstrates how both multilateral trade rules and regional trade agreements can be used proactively to...

This report looks at trade flows of material resources and their environmental impacts. It also demonstrates how both multilateral trade rules and regional trade agreements can be used proactively to...


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Global Resources Outlook 2019

Natural Resources for the Future We Want

( Print: August 2020, PDF: September 2020 )

Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow economies, increase...

Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow economies, increase...


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Land Restoration for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

An International Resource Panel Think Piece

( Print: August 2020, PDF: September 2020 )

Land restoration has tremendous potential to help the world limit climate change and achieve its aims for sustainable development. In its latest study, the International Resource Panel finds positive...

Land restoration has tremendous potential to help the world limit climate change and achieve its aims for sustainable development. In its latest study, the International Resource Panel finds positive...


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Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century

Gearing Extractive Industries Towards Sustainable Development

( Print: August 2020, PDF: September 2020 )

The mining sector, if carefully managed, presents enormous opportunities for advancing sustainable development particularly in low-income countries, the International Resource Panel says in its latest...

The mining sector, if carefully managed, presents enormous opportunities for advancing sustainable development particularly in low-income countries, the International Resource Panel says in its latest...


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Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic

( PDF: September 2020 )

The report reviews the existing practices of healthcare waste management under the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and to identify best available or appropriate waste management practices that are...

The report reviews the existing practices of healthcare waste management under the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and to identify best available or appropriate waste management practices that are...