The objective of the Trade and Environment Review is to enhance understanding of and promote dialogue on the development dimension of key trade and environment issues.

The Trade and Development report analyses current economic trends and major policy issues of international concern, and makes suggestions for addressing these issues at various levels.

The World Investment report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide and at the regional and country levels, as well as emerging measures to improve FDI´s contribution to development.

The Economic Development in Africa report analyses selected aspects of Africa´s development problems and major policy issues confronting African countries.

UNCTAD´s Least Developed Countries Report provides a comprehensive and authoritative source of socio-economic analysis and data on the world´s most impoverished countries.   Each Report contains a statistical annex, which provides basic data on the LDCs.

With economic globalization challenging much of our traditional wisdom, this brief synopsis of data and information offers some explanations for new and emerging economic trends.

The Handbook of Statistics 2008 provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. The Handbook exists also on DVD-ROM and on-line.

The Information Economy Report focuses on trends in information and communications technologies (ICT), such as e-commerce and e-business, and on national and international policy and strategy options for improving the development impact of these technologies in developing countries. It replaces the E-commerce and Development Report published by UNCTAD from 2001 to 2004.

The Review of Maritime Transport examines trends in sea-borne trade and analyses the comparative performance of different geographic regions and countries.