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University students in Tonga enjoy high-speed internet.

Digital development enters the AI age

UNCTAD Acting Secretary-General Moreno met with Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez of the International Maritime Organization.

At Maritime Summit, UNCTAD highlights impact of disruptions

Share of frontier tech market could quadruple by 2033

Technology and Innovation Report: Harnessing AI for development

What's the Borrowers' Platform?

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening - lasting impacts on vulnerable economies

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Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening - lasting impacts on vulnerable economies

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University students in Tonga enjoy high-speed internet.

Digital development enters the AI age

UNCTAD Acting Secretary-General Moreno met with Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez of the International Maritime Organization.

At Maritime Summit, UNCTAD highlights impact of disruptions

Share of frontier tech market could quadruple by 2033

Technology and Innovation Report: Harnessing AI for development

What's the Borrowers' Platform?

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Cover for Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening - lasting impacts on vulnerable economies

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening - lasting impacts on vulnerable economies

Cover for Global trade update (June 2026): The shifting dynamics of critical minerals trade

Global trade update (June 2026): The shifting dynamics of critical minerals trade

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Financing development: External flows of financial capital to developing countries and their cost

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Technology and Innovation Report 2025: Inclusive artificial intelligence for development

Cover for Trade and Development Foresights 2026: Global economy faces a geopolitical challenge

Trade and Development Foresights 2026: Global economy faces a geopolitical challenge

Cover for Borrowers' Platform: Factsheet (June 2026)

Borrowers' Platform: Factsheet (June 2026)

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A customer uses his smartphone for digital payment at a groceries shop in rural India.

06 Jul 2026

When connectivity isn't enough: Closing the digital divide

05 Jul 2026

Data is the new natural resource. Who decides how it's used?

04 Jul 2026

From design to delivery: Why institutional coordination is now the central challenge of industrial policy in Latin America

03 Jul 2026

At Maritime Summit, UNCTAD highlights impact of disruptions

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Data stories

Bar chart showing Must vulnerable economies are exposed to oil and food price shocks

Hormuz disruptions: Most vulnerable economies are exposed to oil and food price shocks

Graph showing prices of oil and refined oil products have risen sharply

Vulnerable economies face the heaviest burden from oil shocks

A graph showing that clean technologies will account for a larger share of critical mineral demand

Critical minerals are reshaping global trade as demand surges

bar chart showing that AI-related hardware boosted import growth in 2025

AI-driven trade boom masks broader slowdown

a map showing that most countries still face higher export costs from non-tariff measures

Beyond tariffs: Most countries still face higher export costs from non-tariff measures

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Meetings and events

World Investment Report 2026

7 July 2026

Launch of the World Investment Report 2026

29 June – 10 July 2026

TrainForTrade Modern Port Management Course: Training of Trainers of the Spanish-speaking network Valencia 2026

Valencia, Spain

6 – 17 July 2026

Fifty-third regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda

Skopje, North Macedonia

6 – 8 July 2026

Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy, 9th session

Geneva, Switzerland

8 – 10 July 2026

Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, 23rd session

Geneva, Switzerland

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Videos

World Investment Report 2026 is launching tomorrow

Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: The burden of oil price shocks on vulnerable economies

Borrowers' Platform: Toward a fairer global financial system

Secretary-General

Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD from 13 September 2021

Geneva, Switzerland

Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica was appointed the eighth Secretary-General of UNCTAD on 13 September 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position in the history of the organization.

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Statements

12 May 2026

12th World Free Zones Organization World Congress

Panama City, Panama

5 May 2026

Multi-year expert meeting on investment, innovation and entrepreneurship for productive capacity-building and sustainable development, 12th session

Geneva, Switzerland

20 April 2026

Commission on Science and Technology for Development, 29th session

Geneva, Switzerland

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