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Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy (SEPIP) Conference: the Industrial Outlook and Policies after Covid-19 Pandemic

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Wednesday, 16 September 2020 15:36

Gül Unal

UNCTAD's call for a Global Green New Deal

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Thursday, 05 December 2019 15:00

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Don't miss out on UNCTAD's new video calling for a Global Green New Deal, based on the GDP Center/UNCTAD report "A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity and UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report: Financing A Global Green New Deal". 

Behind the Green New Deal with Ann Pettifor

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Thursday, 31 October 2019 11:19

Gül Unal

In early October, the Virtual Institute had the privilege of hearing Ann Pettifor, one of the intellectual architects of the Green New Deal, speak at UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board Meetings. Pettifor, who serves as director of the U.K-based Policy Research in Macroeconomics, focused her remarks on the need to adopt a Global Green New Deal to pull up the people and cool down the planet, as UNCTAD unveiled its new flagship report, “Financing a Global Green New Deal”.

The Global Green New Deal: UNCTAD’s Summer School 2019 is over, but the conversation continues

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Monday, 16 September 2019 13:24

Gül Unal

UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies hosted its second annual “Summer School”in Geneva, from August 26th to 30^th, co-organized with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) Young Scholars Initiative. The weeklong gathering drew policymakers and scholars of all ages from 40, mostly developing countries.

The Economic Cost of Occupation for the Palestinian People: The Unrealized Oil and Natural Gas Potential

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Wednesday, 28 August 2019 10:14

Gül Unal

Now more than ever, there is a real opportunity for building lasting peace through shared prosperity in the Middle East, says a new UNCTAD report.The potential olive branch, according to “The Economic Cost of Occupation for the Palestinian People: The Unrealized Oil and Natural Gas Potential”, published by UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, is the abundant oil and gas fields discovered in the eastern Mediterranean in recent years. Estimated at over US$500 billion, these deep-sea reserves are claimed by Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Cyprus.