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Trade Development News
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Accelerating Trade Digitalization Amid The Pandemic
A new treaty aims to turn the idea of cross-border paperless trade into a reality Feb 20 marks the entry into force of a new international agreement promoting paperless trade, a timely reminder of how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought digital solutions to regional development challenges into the limelight. Paperless trade across borders has proven an effective way to mitigate trade disruptions since the onset of the crisis, enabling commerce to continue while limiting physica
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Trade Development News
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
FDI Trends & Outlook In Asia & The Pacific 2020/2021, UNESCAP
The investment landscape in Asia and the Pacific has become increasingly uncertain and tied to the unfolding of current global and regional political economic risks, such as increased trade tensions, the retreat of multilateralism, and health risks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, these risks have disrupted global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to, from and within Asia and the Pacific. HIGHLIGHTS • Globally, both FDI inflows and outflows started to recov
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Trade Development News
- Dec 9, 2019
- 1 min
UN International Anti-Corruption Day 9th December - Transparent & Legitimate Trade For Growth!
GTDW are delighted to share in the UN's International Anti-Corruption Day today, 9th December. United against corruption for development, peace and security Every year $1 trillion is paid in bribes while an estimated $2.6 trillion are stolen annually through corruption – a sum equivalent to more than 5 per cent of the global GDP. In developing countries, according to the United Nations Development Programme, funds lost to corruption are estimated at 10 times the amount of off
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Trade Development News
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
UN: Paperless Trade, Digital & Sustainable Trade Facilitation - Excellent Resource Now Online!
Interactive visualization of Trade Facilitation & Paperless Trade data To help countries benchmark and reduce the time and cost of trading across border, the UN Regional Commissions jointly conduct the UN Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation. The Survey currently covers 128 economies around the globe, and 53 measures related to the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), as well as emerging regional and global initiatives on paperless trade or e-trade
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