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From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD
Intergovernmental meetings
Meeting: Thirteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII)
Date: 21–26 April 2012
Location: Doha (Qatar)
Theme: Development-centred globalization: Towards inclusive and sustainable growth and development

Sub-themes:
  1. Enhancing the enabling economic environment at all levels in support of inclusive and sustainable development.

  2. Strengthening all forms of cooperation and partnerships for trade and development, including North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation.

  3. Addressing persistent and emerging development challenges as related to their implications for trade and development and interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development.

  4. Promoting investment, trade, entrepreneurship and related development policies to foster sustained economic growth for sustainable and inclusive development.
Report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to UNCTAD XIII
Development-led globalization: Towards sustainable and inclusive development paths



Preface: the world turned upside down

"...The first lesson to draw from the crisis is that leaving markets to regulate themselves is both ineffectual and costly. Bailing out financial institutions has already run into trillions of dollars, and despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary responses, the global economy experienced its first contraction since the Great Depression. An estimated 10 per cent of global output was lost between 2008 and 2010, and tens of millions of jobs were destroyed; according to estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO), 200 million people are currently unemployed worldwide. The impact was felt even in those communities that had seen few benefits during the boom years: due to the crisis, the number of people living in extreme poverty jumped by between 50 and 100 million..."

"...A second lesson is that when a large number of economies collapse so dramatically, there must have been underlying weaknesses and fragilities missed or ignored by policymakers prior to the crisis. No one doubts the creative impulse of market forces, but the private pursuit of short-term gain can sometimes result in insufficient productive investment and concentrate the rewards with the favoured few. The risks are particularly pronounced when financial markets detach themselves from the real economy, tying wealth creation to the rapid accumulation of debt and rising asset prices rather than to steady productivity improvements and increasing incomes, and channelling innovation to financial engineering rather than to technological progress. Such a growth strategy is likely to be neither stable nor fair..."


Documents
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/16
Publication Launch - Trade and Development Report: Three Decades of Thinking Development (1981-2011)

08/03/12, 2 page(s), 169KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/15
Panel Discussion: Debt Crises Prevention and Management

08/03/12, 2 page(s), 151KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/18
Regional Workshop on Competition Law Enforcement in the Gulf Region: Challenges and Future Perspectives

08/03/12, 3 page(s), 156KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/4
Trade and Poverty Reduction: The missing links

06/03/12, 2 page(s), 146KBAlso available in: French
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/12
Publication launch - Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures

06/03/12, 2 page(s), 169KB
Download PDF
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

05/03/12, 1 page(s), 711KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/5
Towards inclusive and sustainable growth and development: What can the tourism sector contribute

29/02/12, 2 page(s), 152KBAlso available in: French
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/8
Sustaining the Palestinian Economy under Occupation: The Role of Arab Cooperation

29/02/12, 2 page(s), 148KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/3
United Nations Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity

27/02/12, 2 page(s), 136KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/14
High-level event on the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the Decade 2011–2020

22/02/12, 2 page(s), 152KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/6
Natural gas as an engine of growth

22/02/12, 3 page(s), 155KBAlso available in: French
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Delegates’ Handbook for UNCTAD XIII

21/02/12, 25 page(s), 385KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/13
Addressing the Policy Challenges for Sustainable Investment and Enterprise Development

16/02/12, 3 page(s), 155KB
Download PDF TD/458
Round Table IV – Addressing persistent and emerging development challenges: An integrated approach to promoting structural transformation

10/02/12, page(s), 52KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/455
Special High-Level Event – Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020: Graduation and structural transformation

10/02/12, 4 page(s), 51KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/453/Rev.1
Round Table III – Strengthening cooperation and partnerships for trade and development

10/02/12, 6 page(s), 59KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/9
Round Table I - Addressing the Risks of A Global Recession: Towards Comprehensive, Supportive Macroeconomic Policies and Structural Reforms

10/02/12, 2 page(s), 154KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/1
High-level Segment - in the wake of the global economic crisis: new opportunities for economic growth with social equity

10/02/12, 2 page(s), 150KB
Download PDF TD/443
Provisional agenda and annotations

09/02/12, 6 page(s), 51KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/457
Round Table II – Addressing the policy challenges for sustainable development and enterprise development

09/02/12, 5 page(s), 42KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/10
Round Table III - Strengthening All Forms of Cooperation and Partnership for Trade and Development, Including North–South, South–South and Triangular Cooperation

08/02/12, 2 page(s), 152KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/2
Women in Development - Development-centred globalization: Inclusive and gender-sensitive development paths

07/02/12, 3 page(s), 221KB
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/CN/2012/7
Policy Dialogue on the Creative Economy and Development

01/02/12, 2 page(s), 159KB
Download PDF TD/INF.43
Special Event – Sustaining the Palestinian economy under occupation: The role of Arab cooperation

01/02/12, 6 page(s), 167KB
Download PDF TD/452
Round Table I – Addressing the Risks of A Global Recession: Towards Comprehensive, Supportive Macroeconomic Policies and Structural Reforms

30/01/12, 5 page(s), 52KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/451
Summary of the UNCTAD XIII pre-Conference event: Expert Group Meeting on Addressing the Vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) more Effectively

27/01/12, 3 page(s), 106KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/456
Inclusive and gender-sensitive development paths

26/01/12, 6 page(s), 62KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/454
High-level Segment of Heads of State and Government – In the wake of the global economic crisis: New opportunities for economic growth with social equity

20/01/12, 6 page(s), 57KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD(XIII)/PC/1/Rev.1
Draft President’s negotiating text for UNCTAD XIII

20/01/12, 21 page(s), 161KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/INF.42
Panel discussion: Debt Crises Prevention and Management

10/01/12, 3 page(s), 34KB
Download PDF TD/63/REV.2
Rules of Procedure: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

01/01/12, 47 page(s), 5574KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/B/744
Rules of procedure of the Trade and Development Board

01/01/12, 49 page(s), 4085KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF UNCTAD(XIII)/1
Report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to UNCTAD XIII - Development-led globalization: Towards sustainable and inclusive development paths

30/11/11, 105 page(s), 786KBAlso available in: French Spanish
Download PDF TD/448
Group D Position Paper

03/11/11, 5 page(s), 47KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/444
Preface to the report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to UNCTAD XIII - Development-led globalization: Towards sustainable and inclusive development paths

03/11/11, 7 page(s), 66KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/445
Group of 77 and China Position Paper

27/10/11, 18 page(s), 108KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/446
European Union Position Paper

27/10/11, 5 page(s), 41KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/447
Group of Least Developed Countries Position Paper

27/10/11, 8 page(s), 65KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/449
JUSSCANNZ Position Paper

27/10/11, 8 page(s), 59KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF TD/450
Group of Land-locked Developing Countries Position Paper

27/10/11, 7 page(s), 55KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
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Preliminary list of Pre-conference Events

20/09/11, 1 page(s), 20KB
Download PDF TD/B/EX(52)/2
Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-second executive session

18/04/11, 4 page(s), 49KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF A/RES/63/204
UN General Assembly Resolution 63/204: Report of the twelfth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

28/01/09, 1 page(s), 30KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian
Download PDF UNCTAD/IAOS/2008/2
Accra Accord and the Accra Declaration

25/04/08, 94 page(s), 656KBAlso available in: French Spanish
Download PDF TD/413
Report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to UNCTAD XII - Globalization for development: Opportunities and challenges

04/07/07, 86 page(s), 1804KBAlso available in: French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian



 

 

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