Trade and development

18 March 1998

Press Release
TAD/1855

LEADING MULTINATIONALS VOTE THEIR CONFIDENCE IN ASIA

19980318

GENEVA, 18 March (UNCTAD) -- Results released today of a worldwide survey of leading multinational companies find that overall confidence in East and South-East Asia as a destination for foreign direct investment remains unshaken, despite the financial crisis in the region.

12 December 1997

Press Release
TAD/1852

UNCTAD FORUM AIMS TO HELP POLICYMAKERS IN REVIEWING WAYS TO MEET REQUIREMENTS OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

19971212 Cost-Effective 'Emissions Trading' Seen as Key Step In Effort Towards Global Reduction of Greenhouse Gases

30 October 1997

Press Release
TAD/1851

9 October 1997

Press Release
TAD/1850

23 September 1997

Press Release
TAD/1849

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD) ISSUES 'LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 1997 REPORT'

19970923 ADVANCE RELEASE Finds Institutional, Economic Reforms Generating Growth in Some Countries; Cites Impact of Agricultural Sector, Effects of State Collapse

17 September 1997

Press Release
TAD/1848

`1997 WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT' CALLS FOR ATTENTION TO COMPETITION POLICIES AS COMPLEMENT TO BENEFITS OF GLOBAL INVESTMENT POLICY LIBERALIZATION

19970917 ADVANCE RELEASE Says UNCTAD Secretary-General Rubens Ricupero `True Competition Culture Is Vital in Age of Business Globalization'

11 September 1997

Press Release
TAD/1847

UNCTAD SOUNDS WARNING ON GLOBALIZATION

19970911 ADVANCE RELEASE

GENEVA, 11 September (UNCTAD) -- The big story of the world economy since the early 1980s has been increasing integration through the unleashing of market forces. But there is also another story, one that is attracting increasing attention in the 1990s: social and economic divisions among, and within, countries are widening.

11 September 1997

Press Release
TAD/1846

UNCTAD'S WORK ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ESSENTIAL FOR POLICY/DECISION MAKERS, EXPERTS SAY

19970911 Trade Body Asked to Identify Obstacles To Global System for Trade Transactions

17 June 1997

Press Release
TAD/1845

15 April 1997

Press Release
TAD/1842