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A significant portion of the measured rise in trade volumes is accounted for by increasing trade in

It was noted that some challenges relating to sustainable

Their effects carry significant risk

The secretariat highlighted the potential for the further liberalization of South–South trade and the reduction of tariffs on intermediate inputs, the need to properly address non-tariff measures, the need for a sound business environment and an effective government to establish the enabling environment to make domestic firms more attractive to

These databases, including the Programme for

Before a country commits itself to promoting a new industry, it must verify the status the industry has in the rest of the world,

The paper then stated that the U.S. “will not permit conditions under which our maritime forces will be impeded from freedom of manoeuvre and freedom of

In order to maximize the development potential that accompany those endowments, careful investment and capacity-building strategies are critical; (e) the small size of most least developed country markets makes economic integration critical to ensuring competitiveness and increased private sector investment and, in that regard, publicprivate partnerships are a key tool in informing country integration strategies; (f) the private sector, which now represents important components of business development strategies, has

The main impacts of the current multilateral trade regime on the right to food include: (a) increased dependency on international trade which may lead to loss of export revenues when the prices of export commodities go down, threats to local producers when low-priced imports arrive on the domestic markets, against which these producers are unable to compete, and balance of payments problems for the net food-importing countries when the prices of food commodities go up; (b) potential

Failure to address such weaknesses has given rise to concerns of a “middleincome trap”, since several countries

The Committee considered the following issues: (a) the status of the

The delegation of Nepal requested that the secretariat help least developed and landlocked countries to conduct analyses on key export and import products; introduce single windows and paperless trade and the promotion of public-private sector dialogue on the implementation of trade and transit facilitation measures; provide a platform to discuss issues of common concern, paying particular attention to

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection

The Section would be headed by a Chief Property Management Officer (P-4), the incumbent of which would report to the Chief of Integrated Support Services and would be responsible for: the management and maintenance of the Mission’s electronic assets control system; inventory management and the reduction of inventory levels; the disposal of written-off

Following a discussion, the Executive Committee decided to approve the pilot project for validation of methyl formate as a blowing agent in the manufacture of polyurethane foam (phase I) in Brazil at a total cost of US $401,500 plus agency support costs of US $30,113 for UNDP, noting that the project was

These 12 posts comprise one P-2 post of Associate Economic Affairs Officer under executive direction and

The major challenge encountered in this process has been how to maintain UNESCO’s specificity, hence strength, as a specialized agency with its complex composites of intergovernmental committees with its own political and technical agendas in the promotion of international conventions, normative and