Global trade looks resilient, but under the surface lies a volatile system built on balance sheets & financial flows. Over 90% of world trade depends on trade finance, yet global finance leaves much of global South on the margins. @UNCTAD report ▶️ https://t.co/MPMR44QL9F

🇺🇳New @UN report says reforms to global financial systems are key to reducing vulnerability, improving predictability and supporting stronger alignment between trade, finance & development. EN ▶️ https://t.co/ZbIdxu0MBz FR ▶️ https://t.co/Q4rYqhFqPX ES ▶️ https://t.co/2OiqvVRMTI

@UNCTAD @RGrynspan @MazzucatoM @ucl @HazelGenn 💰 We cannot understand trade without finance With over 90% of global trade depending on financial infrastructure, @RGrynspan and @MazzucatoM discuss the impact of increasing financialization and explore what an inclusive financial architecture could look like.

📍Happening today! On the heels of #COP30 and the #G20Summit, join @UNCTAD Secretary General @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL Director @MazzucatoM for a joint conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy, and finance. 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/zHMHz69B23

Join @UNCTAD’s @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL’s @MazzucatoM for a conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy & finance. ▶️ https://t.co/EJK8j2uOmb

📍Happening tomorrow! On the heels of #COP30 and the #G20Summit, join @UNCTAD Secretary General @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL Director @MazzucatoM for a joint conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy, and finance. 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/zHMHz69B23

Looking forward to presenting @UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2025 with Prof. Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) of @IIPP_UCL. We will debate the financialization of global trade and how to better support developing countries. You can follow here:

Join @UNCTAD’s @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL’s @MazzucatoM for a conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy & finance. ▶️ https://t.co/EJK8j2uOmb

🇺🇳 Celebrating ten years of @UNCTAD’s Empowerment Programme for Trade Facilitation. Over eighty countries supported, stronger National Trade Facilitation Committees worldwide & real reforms taking shape. ▶️ Video: https://t.co/pOtTZKubGr ▶️ More: https://t.co/bpElzaBTzm

Follow me these weeks – from Dubai, where I spoke at @KnowSummit, to Johannesburg for the @g20org, to meeting the @UNCTAD Board in Geneva, to London for dialogue with the @FCDOGovUK on trade & finance, and finally debating the future of multilateralism at @ChathamHouse. #OnTheGo

¡Llegamos a la recta final del curso “El uso de #Blockchain para la facilitación del comercio”! Más de 200 personas ya completaron el curso y serán reconocidas el 2 de diciembre, a las 16:00 CET. ▶️ Inscríbase hoy: https://t.co/iksP5sfgLX

Our mission to be The World’s Most Trusted Driver is more imperative than ever. Nearly 100M miles of data shows that Waymo’s are involved in 91% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers. Read neurosurgeon @slotkinjr’s perspective, and his powerful call-to-action to make

Finance can put trade at risk – leaving the global economy “on the brink”, with developing countries hardest hit. Join @UNCTAD’s @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL’s @MazzucatoM for a conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy & finance. ▶️ https://t.co/EJK8j2uOmb

🎤 On the heels of #COP30 and the #G20Summit, join @UNCTAD Secretary General @RGrynspan & @IIPP_UCL Director @MazzucatoM for a joint conversation on the global crises reshaping trade, industrial policy, and finance. 📅 2 Dec | 17:30 GMT 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/zHMHz69B23

Os países em desenvolvimento precisam de financiamento climático para enfrentar a crise das alterações climáticas. Em entrevista, a economista da @UNCTAD, Daniela Magalhães Prates, afirma que é preciso promover mudanças reais: https://t.co/bhsEWAQqYx

The prolonged military operation and long-standing restrictions have driven the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory into its most severe contraction on record, wiping out 69 years of development gains. @UNCTAD’s weekly roundup ▶️ https://t.co/qVBT3iKWzd

Thank you @ChathamHouse for inviting me to speak on multilateralism & how the @UN is adapting to a new world. I am convinced that today, to be a multilateralist is to be a reformist. Thank you Sir Mark @LyallGrant and Dr. Samir Puri @purisamir1 for the excellent conversation.

🇺🇳 @UNCTAD launches its new Statistics, Data and Digital Service, bringing statistical excellence and digital innovation under one vision. It boosts our capacity for data-driven tools, AI and digital solutions for countries. Find out more ▶️ https://t.co/pmw4cRAUNh

Baada ya miaka ya maendeleo, uchumi wa ardhi ya Wapalestina umedondoka kwa kiwango kikali zaidi katika historia. @UNCTAD imeonya, ikisema ujenzi upya ni lazima sasa zaidi kuliko hapo awali. https://t.co/swSzklOZpu

.@UNCTAD’s data shows that in 2024, #Gaza’s GDP collapsed by 83% compared to the previous year, marking most damaging economic collapse ever recorded. Urgent international action is needed to prevent further suffering. https://t.co/uOqzRf1exW

A pleasure to meet with Baroness @JennyChapman, UK Minister for International Development and Africa 🇬🇧, for an important discussion on financing for development, international cooperation & how @UNCTAD can support. Thank you @FCDOGovUK for the warm welcome.

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