By Saritdet Marukatat, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 2--A strong US dollar has added to global imbalance and may spur developed countries to raise trade barriers, a senior United Nations' official said yesterday. Rubens Ricupero, the secretary-general of...
According to anba: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Unctad promotes between today and Wednesday (26), in Geneva, Switzerland, a workshop to train leadership in 16 African countries in how to participate in an effective manner According to anba: The United Nations Conference...
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Governments and private operators should make greater use of the Internet to promote Asia-Pacific tourism, the United Nations said Tuesday as the industry gathered for its first regional e-tourism conference. The Internet could be used to target tourists directly, rather than depending on tour operators,...
By Saritdet Marukatat, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 30--Developing countries banking on exports of labour-intensive products must brace for stiff competition from China, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Unctad warned yesterday. Unctad identified light...
IT should come as no surprise that the environmentalist community in the Americas, whose expectations were raised by the bold, global "Agenda 21" of the 1992 Earth Summit, the informal title accorded the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED, would be concerned that the forces of free market...
DIANE COYLE Economics Correspondent The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development calls for lower interest rates, a one-off wealth tax to eliminate budget deficits and a transactions tax in the foreign exchange markets in its annual trade and development report published today. These...
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 February 2000-UN: `We can`t turn back the clock on globalization`, World Bank President tells UN Trade and Development conference; Numerous delegations in UNTAD X general debate express similar views C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16022000 BANGKOK -- As part...
NEW YORK -- The Clinton administration's appointee who went head on with the Vatican last summer over the agenda of the U.N. population conference in Cairo, Egypt, has a different view of the Vatican's role in the upcoming U.N. conference on social development.Timothy Wirth, undersecretary for global affairs in the...
The first major conference that has been undertaken by the United Nations in close partnership with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, other UN agencies and representatives from civil society and the business sector stands to become a turning point in the fight to reducing...
The world's rich nations have long preached the advantage of free trade for the world's developing nations. But it simply has not been a level playing field. This in-depth piece shows how and why. The authors argue that the free trade regime is often rigged against the developing nations, and...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific on transport and tourism division will organise a workshop and seminars on maritime and port related subjects in Bangkok from Nov 29...
UNITED NATIONS, March 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This week at the Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations, the U.S. government is poised to isolate itself for a third time from the nations of the world meeting to reaffirm a landmark popuUNITED NATIONS, March 25 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
Demand for organic products around the world is at an all-time high. According to the International Trade Centre, a joint effort of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization, retail sales of organic food by major consumers (the United States, Europe and Japan) totaled...
By Darana Chudasri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18--Thailand ranked 41st out of 140 countries on the United Nations investment performance index over the period 1998 to 2000, compared with 25th place a decade earlier, according to the 2002...
UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan threw down the gauntlet to world leaders, pressing them to adopt his proposals for wide-ranging reforms to the United Nations this year. Annan called for an expanded Security Council, fixed rules for when nations could go to war, strengthened human...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States completed a free trade agreement with five Central American nations plus the Dominican Republic by signing accords promoting environmental protection and sustained development. But the nations involved in the deal, except for El Salvador, have yet to ratify the Central American Free Trade...
The World Bank and the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements Habitatlaunched the Cities Alliance during the opening day of a conference on World Competitive Cities. The initiative is designed to improve the efficiency and impact of development cooperation in the area of urban poverty and...
UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged developed nations to "close the deal" on poverty eradication as he opened a high-level meeting on global development financing. The two-day gathering brought together ministers of finance and development cooperation, as well as leaders of the World Bank, International...
Responding to a Government Accounting Office report showing that the United States has overpaid its obligations to the United Nations by $3.5 billion, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a Maryland Republican, has introduced legislation to cut a $100 million proposed payment from the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill. The United Nations...
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 September 2001-WORLD BANK: World Bank joins United Nations in implementing Millennium Development Goals guide to development in 21st century C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:19092001 WASHINGTON -- The World Bank announced today that it is joining the ...
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