Sentence examples for unctad from inspiring English sources

For example, in its 2008 report on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) warns that the recent growth surge in LDCs is unsustainable because: It "is not associated with a structural transition in which the share of manufactures in total output is growing (except for most Asian LDCs)".

According to an UNCTAD study, 20 hours of access a month costs $90 in Mexico, equivalent to 15% of average income, compared with only $25 in America, a mere 1% of average income.

UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) points out that Argentina has been producing multinationals at least since Alpargatas, a textile-maker, set up an affiliate in Uruguay in 1890.

UNCTAD is concerned with the world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs).

According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2010 totalled $1.12 trillion, a shade more than the $1.11 trillion recorded during 2009.

Because the international trading system and the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade dealt primarily with the promotion of trade between advanced industrialized countries, in 1964 the General Assembly established the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to address issues of concern to developing countries.

Figures published just yesterday by the United Nations Conferencee on Trade and Development (Unctad) showed that Britain was the preferred location for foreign investment - bar none.

"Unemployment depends very much on demand," said Heiner Flassbeck, the lead author of the report and the chief of globalization and trade strategies for Unctad.

A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTADD) has shown that Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows grew year-on-year to $1.45tn in 2013.

Despite world economic turmoil, global inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) rose by 17% in 2011 to $1.5 trillion, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTADD).

Nor do peaks in tariffs concentrated in textiles and clothing, fisheries and footwear, and clearly directed at the poor countries change the picture much: the United Nations Council for Trade, Aid and Development UNCTADD) has estimated that they apply to only a third of poor-country exports.