digital trade.The concepts in this Handbook are also in line with the broader guidance on measuring the digital economy established through the framework for digital supply and use tablesOECD,2023.Although international trade statistics should,in principle,cover digital trade,digital ordering and ...
speed and ease of digital payments can provide new solutions to financial inclusion and cost of financial services,although without also providing an alternative monetary anchor.The centrality of data in the digital economy poses new challenges concerning privacy and competition,with network effects ...
Torbjörn Fredriksson is currently the Head of the E-commerce and Digital Economy Branch at the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In this role, he oversees a range of key initiatives, including UNCTAD’s flagship Digital Economy Report, the eTrade for All initiative, eTrade for Women, eWe...
saying that due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, high food and energy prices, soaring public debt and other factors, global foreign direct investment in 2022 will decline by 12% to 1.3 trillion US dollars from the previous year. The World Investment Report 2023 released by UNCTAD on the...
"The EU is actively supporting Angola to tap the significant potential of trade for the sustainable development of the country,” said Behrndt. “On training of the key personnel as one key element of this support we're keen to cooperate with UNCTAD and await th...
"RCEP could be a growth opportunity for several smaller economies in the group that currently have a peripheral role in global value chains," the report added. The UNCTAD warned that the agreement comes at a time of "major upheaval" caused by COVID-19. It estimated that the pandemic will ...
and enhancing the diffusion of business models based on circular economy.At the same time,digital technologies may also pose serious environmental threats,which span from the use of rare materials in their production to the high energy consumption in their utilization.For analytical purposes,it is ...
report,this report contains anns that list measures affecting FDI adopted by G20 members in the context of the war in Ukraine.2 G20 Leaders“Declaration of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy”,Washington,15 November 2008.3 Earlier reports on investment measures by OECD and ...