A partnership with academia

Building knowledge for trade and development

  • You are here:  
  • Home

9
Details

The COVID-19 crisis has amplified profound fault lines in the functioning of global value chains (GVCs), and in the global economy more in general, starkly exposing the fragility of the current porduction model and the divisions and inequalities of the world we live in. Global annual growth this year might fall by 4.3 percentage points according to the UNCTAD’s latest projections and economies in all regions of the world will shrink. All at a time when timely production of critical products is more important than ever, amid a pandemic that has locked down vast parts of the planet and limited economic activities in an unprecedented way.

Read more ... Add new comment

16
Details

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”.

 

Read more ... Add new comment

21
Details

UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies hosted its second annual “Summer School”in Geneva, from August 26th to 30th, 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.

Read more ... Add new comment

15
Details

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.

Read more ... Add new comment

Login

Agenda

September 2017
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Friday, 15 September 2017
16
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Saturday, 16 September 2017
17
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Sunday, 17 September 2017
18
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Monday, 18 September 2017
19
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Tuesday, 19 September 2017
20
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Wednesday, 20 September 2017
21
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Thursday, 21 September 2017
22
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Friday, 22 September 2017
23
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Saturday, 23 September 2017
24
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Sunday, 24 September 2017
25
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Monday, 25 September 2017
26
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Tuesday, 26 September 2017
27
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Wednesday, 27 September 2017
28
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Thursday, 28 September 2017
29
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Friday, 29 September 2017
30
Call for applications › Vi course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy
Venue Online
The first edition of our online course on Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy, to be held November 1 to December 19. In an effort to enhance knowledge about the links [...]
Date : Saturday, 30 September 2017

Featured member

BELGIUM - College of Europe

Follow the Vi

Like us on Facebook!
Find us on Linkedin

Our members say...

The Virtual Institute is one concrete step in encouraging partnerships between developed and developing countries. Supporting the Virtual Institute is, in our view, a good investment.

Heli Hautala, former First Secretary Permanent Mission of Finland

Video highlight

World Investment Report 2013