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A publication of great impact providing insights into the future direction that countries and major organizations are likely to take in information technology development. It contains contributions...

The 2017 Commodities and Development Report investigates the transmission channels through which commodity dependence affects micro- and macro-level development outcomes, examines long-term commodity...

Smallholder farmers constitute the largest contingent of the poor and yet they produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, in value terms. Though there are marked differences by country and...

The Commodities and Development Report 2012, released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed...

This report highlights pathways to economic diversification in commodity-dependent developing countries in an environment where decarbonization of the global economy has become the overarching...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2022. It is...

Commodity dependence is a trap: once a country is commodity dependent, it is difficult to develop a productive sector out of commodities and export non-commodity products. This publication argues that...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2021. It is...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2020. It is...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2019. It is...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2018. It is...

This annual report describes the activities, achievements and financial situation of the DMFAS Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of 2017. It is...

This report explores key aspects of the two-way relationship between commodities and climate change, discusses the concept of natural resource conversion and explores its application to renewable and...

This Bulletin presents the experiences and acquired wisdom of international energy experts and describes through case studies the successes and failures of their energy technology. It also focuses on...

Rapidly changing technologies and their socio-economic implications have made it imperative to analyze more closely the relationship between technological advances and socio-economic development...

New technology plays a crucial part in the development process. This Bulletin provides the opportunity to gain full insight into the role materials technology plays in development.

This issue of the Advanced Technology Assessment (ATAS) deals with the topic of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs). The purpose of this Assessment is to help policy makers and regulators to...

This book is an extended collection of papers that present an in-depth examination of and numerous case studies on this subject of worldwide concern. The articles presented are grouped under six main...

This publication presents a discussion on the state-of-the-art in both technology and applications and predicts extensive usage by the year 2000. The extensive world-wide collection of papers offer...