The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MAEC) has donated US$500,000 to fund Virtual Institute activities in Latin America and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the next two and a half years.
The UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi) and its sister programmes, the Course on Key International Economic Issues and TrainForTrade (TFT), are sad to announce the death of Brazilian professor, Mario Ferreira Presser, who throughout the years lent his invaluable expertise to the achievement of the programmes' goals.
Prof. Presser -- Mario, as he was known to us -- passed away on Wednesday, March 26, after battling cancer. He was 59.
Vi members are encouraged to submit papers for thee conferences recommended by our colleagues, Pierre Berthaud, of Pierre Mendès France University, and Sawkut Rojid, of the University of Mauritius.
The conferences, taking place in China, France and Belgium, address several issues of interest to the Vi membership, including foreign direct investment (FDI), regionalization, global governance and international financial system.
The Vi team has also compiled a list of journals proposed by members in Jordan, Russia, Argentina, and Kenya.
Vi's partner, the UNCTAD/WTO International Tade Centre (ITC), is making its online market analysis tools available free of charge to developing and transition-economies countries. The initiative is funded by ITC’s Global Trust Fund and the World Bank.
"I confirm the usefulness of these tools," writes Tanzania's Vi member coordinator, Francis Matambalya, who is using them in his research at the Nordic Africa Institute.
The Faculty of Law of Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) invites Vi members to participate in the First Maputo International Conference on Regional Integration and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Law scheduled for April 23-25.
The conference, organized in partnership with the SADC Secretariat and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Mozambique, is part of the faculty’s programme on Regional Integration and SADC issues, which represents a landmark pilot project designed and developed with the objective of facilitating the mainstreaming of regional integration and SADC policies in Mozambique.
