Conference primer: Trade and Economics: 2023

Theme: Sharing Mining Benefits in the Energy Transition
The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) supports governments to advance good mining governance for the betterment of communities, economies, and the environment.

Government policymakers, mining sector leaders, and civil society will convene to focus on the many issues connected to “Sharing Mining Benefits in the Energy Transition."

The Trade and Development Board oversees the activities of UNCTAD. It meets in Geneva up to three times a year in executive sessions to deal with urgent policy issues, as well as management and institutional matters.

To adapt to a changing digital landscape, the eCommerce Week becomes UNCTAD eWeek as of its 2023 edition.

The World Investment Forum is organized by UNCTAD’s Division on Investment and Enterprise.
The Division is recognized as a global centre of excellence on issues related to investment and enterprise for sustainable development.

Helping developing countries harness e-commerce and digital trade for development.
Connected to UNCTAD eWeek 2023

As the economy continued to operate well below potential, other persistent challenges intensified, including inflation, poverty, shrinking fiscal space, a decline in foreign aid and the build-up of public and private debt.
Published 25 October 2023

This episode of the Weekly Tradecast takes a step back in time with Danielle Hughes, chief of the Records Management Unit, by looking at the history of the United Nations and also how UNCTAD, the UN’s trade body, was formed.
UNCTAD podcast, 31 March 2023

Building a sustainable and resilient ocean economy beyond 2030
Report published 8 May 2023

This report builds on the discussions at the UNCTAD Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on Competition, Consumer Protection and Sustainability, held on 28 September 2022 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, and online.
Published 30 March 2023

Global trade growth turns negative for most countries and sectors.
Global trade reached more than $32 trillion in 2022, but growth turned negative during the last quarter of the year.

Delivering development finance to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Making development finance contribute to environmentally sound industrialization

The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is a biennial multi-stakeholder gathering at the level of Heads of States and Governments, CEOs, ministers and heads of international organizations, designed to facilitate dialogue and action on the world's current and emerging investment-development challenges.

Pioneering Solutions for Global Trade Challenges Following the success of Trade Facilitation Innovation Days 2022, an international event that attracted around 700 participants from over 100 countries, UNCTAD and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation are thrilled to announce the forthcoming edition of this groundbreaking initiative.

This year’s TFID will take deep dives into 4 themes: supply chain, technology, green trade and special trade regimes.

Day 2 - Key issues, Agenda, Documents, Timetable

Day 1 - Key issues, Agenda, Documents, Timetable

Key issues, Agenda, Documents, Timetable

Key issues, Documents

UNCTAD will host the third iteration of the UN Trade Forum to take stock of trade policies that are best tailored to the challenges that the world faces.

The WTO, jointly with the WTO Gender Research Hub, will hold the Youth Trade Summit on Gender on 13-14 November at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to promote opportunities for young professionals and researchers to engage in discussions on trade and gender issues.

Your entry point into WTO trade data and data from other sources

The General Council is the WTO’s highest-level decision-making body in Geneva, meeting regularly to carry out the functions of the WTO.

The topmost decision-making body of the WTO is the Ministerial Conference, which usually meets every two years. It brings together all members of the WTO, all of which are countries or customs unions. The Ministerial Conference can take decisions on all matters under any of the multilateral trade agreements.

Links to MC1 (December 1996) to MC12 (June 2022)

Ministerial Declarations and Decisions taken since the WTO was founded in 1995.

The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest annual outreach event, which provides a platform for participants to discuss the latest developments in world trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral trading system.

The 2023 Public Forum will examine how trade can contribute to a greener and more sustainable future.

In-person and online. Open to the public.
This event serves as a forum where government officials, business representatives, international organizations, academics, and civil society convene to discuss ways to make global trade more sustainable.

The General Council is the WTO’s highest-level decision-making body in Geneva, meeting regularly to carry out the functions of the WTO.

Documents and services

Documents and services

Trade Facilitation and E-Business

The International Trade Centre (ITC) works towards global prosperity by connecting small businesses in developing countries to international markets.

ITC aprovides a wide suite of market analysis tools and related market data and information sources Check out ITC ‘s extensive list of

Check out the latest news articles on the International Trade Centre’s work on small business trade around the world

ITC’s online library provides stakeholders with links and references to trade related publications from ITC and external

World Bank website

IMF website

Banga vows to improve World Bank before asking for a capital increase

The global economy is at a pivotal moment of transformation. Established business and industry models have not only been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic but are now being tested by a more competitive geopolitical and geoeconomic environment.

The 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions kicked-off with top leaders discussing how best to manage the various economic headwinds.
27 June 2023

And how they will impact the world.
#emergingtech23 #amnc23

The January 2023 Chief Economists Outlook is published amid continuing economic uncertainty and challenges of historic proportions. As the world puts another tumultuous year behind it, governments, businesses and households will all have to grapple with persistent headwinds throughout 2023. Financial conditions remain tight, with little scope for significant loosening, despite much of the world economy being at risk of recession. However, according to the latest survey of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists, there are tentative grounds for optimism, including the prospect of an easing of the cost-of-living and energy crises by the end of this year.

The world’s largest economic forum for chambers and businesses
Join economic actors, business leaders and policymakers to shape the next economic era in service of peace and prosperity. Together.

Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades.
IMF publication, April 2023

ITC puts trade-led growth at the centre of its work in developing countries

The World Bank Group works in every major area of development. We provide a wide array of financial products and technical assistance, and we help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to the challenges they face.

The IMF works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation, which are essential to increase productivity, job creation, and economic well-being.

IFC is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries.

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