DOHA, QATAR, 22 April — The global financial crisis could continue to plague both developing and developed countries for a long time unless market-based orthodoxies were questioned and resources better directed towards sustainable growth and development, experts said during today’s first round table of the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) in Doha, Qatar.

DOHA, QATAR, 22 April — Speakers at a special session of the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) today emphasized the importance of taking an integrated approach to the world’s financial institutions, in which trade was addressed alongside investment, development and other key issues.

DOHA, QATAR, 22 April — Policies that effectively harnessed entrepreneurship and maximized investment were vital for restarting sluggish economic engines and boosting growth potential in developing countries, Government officials and heads of international organizations said this afternoon during a round table discussion at the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) in Doha, Qatar.

DOHA, QATAR, 21 April — In the wake of the global financial crisis, it was important for the international community to be “inventive and courageous” in considering optimal economic models in their efforts to create a stable economic culture that would produce equitable growth, the incoming President of the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) said in Doha, Qatar, today.

With the world in the midst of an economic recovery that was “fragile at best”, bold ideas were required to transform the path and process of globalization so that countries buffeted by the global financial crisis could gain relief through more equitable growth, improved market access, scaled-up investment and other forms of cooperation, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in a message to the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

DOHA, QATAR, 23 April — Change in favour of equitable and sustainable development in the Arab world and around the globe must be achieved by women working side by side with men at all levels, Qatar Museums Authority Chairperson Sheikha Al Mayyasa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said today as the Thirteenth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) held a high-level event on “Women in Development”.

25 April 2008

Press ReleaseTAD/2045

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

In Concluding Declaration, Ministers Pledge to Resist Protectionism, Boost Lagging

Poverty Reduction Strategies, as UNCTAD XII Ends in Ghana

 

Accra Accord Outlines Institutional Machinery Needed to Ensure

Sustained Progress by Developing Countries on Level Trading Field

24 April 2008

Press ReleaseTAD/2043

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MUST UPGRADE INFRASTRUCTURE, INVEST IN SKILLS TRAINING

TO BRIDGE RICH-POOR INFORMATION GAP, SAYS GHANAIAN MINISTER

Round Table on Harnessing Knowledge for Development

Considers Strategies for Using Communications Technology to Reduce Poverty

24 April 2008

Press ReleaseTAD/2044

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DIVERSIFICATION, BETTER AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES KEY TO REDUCING POVERTY

IN POOREST COUNTRIES, ROUND TABLE PARTICIPANTS TOLD

 

Earlier Panel Considers Debt Management Solutions Supporting Trade, Development

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

23 April 2008

Press ReleaseTAD/2041

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

ROUND TABLE AGREES ON IMPORTANCE OF COUNTRY-SPECIFIC POLICIES TO HELP

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MAXIMIZE ECONOMIC GAINS FROM FOREIGN INVESTMENT

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)