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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
UNCTAD expects world output growth to slow to 2.6 percent in 2026 from 2.9 percent in 2025, before edging up to 2.7 percent in 2027, according to its Trade and Development Report 2026 published on…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Fuel subsidies could cost governments more than 1 trillion dollars this year, according to a United Nations Development Programme report released on…
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Macro · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Gaza's recovery and reconstruction needs are estimated at 71.5 billion dollars, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in its annual report on…
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Macro · Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
The external debt of developing countries reached 12.3 trillion dollars in 2025, up 508 billion dollars from a year earlier, according to…
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International Organizations · Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read
The world economy is projected to grow 2.6 percent in 2026 and 2.9 percent in 2027, the UN Department of Economic and…
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UN · Aug 29, 2026 · 4 min read
UN Trade and Development, UNCTAD, highlighted on 28 August 2026 its upcoming ninth World Investment Forum, to be held in Doha, Qatar,…
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UN · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
The Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index averaged 131.1 points in July 2026, up 0.7 points or 0.6 percent on June…
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Markets · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Global goods trade expanded by about 12.5 percent in the first half of 2026 from a year earlier, reaching around 13.7 trillion…
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Macro · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
The number of people facing hunger around the world fell for a third consecutive year in 2025, to about 645 million, or…
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Macro · Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Global foreign direct investment rose about 6 percent to 1.6 trillion dollars in 2025, ending two years of decline, but the recovery…
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International Organizations · Jun 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Artificial intelligence is becoming a structural force in global electricity markets. The issue is no longer only the power used by individual…
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Macro · Jun 2, 2026 · 7 min read
The World Meteorological Organization warns of an 80% likelihood of El Niño during June–August 2026, with conditions likely persisting through November. The…
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UNCTAD expects world output growth to slow to 2.6 percent in 2026 from 2.9 percent in 2025, before edging up to 2.7 percent in 2027, according to its Trade and Development Report 2026 published on 9 October. The report also puts world trade at a record 35 trillion dollars in 2025 and expects Asia to…
Fuel subsidies could cost governments more than 1 trillion dollars this year, according to a United Nations Development Programme report released on 2 October and reported by Bloomberg, as the number of countries using relief measures nearly doubled between April and September. Without those measures, an additional 130 million people could have fallen below the…
Gaza’s recovery and reconstruction needs are estimated at 71.5 billion dollars, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in its annual report on the Palestinian economy, presented on 24 September. An estimated 92 percent of Gaza’s economic establishments have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023. An economy below its 2022 size Palestinian GDP grew 4.3…
The external debt of developing countries reached 12.3 trillion dollars in 2025, up 508 billion dollars from a year earlier, according to a report of the UN Secretary-General listed by UN Trade and Development on 23 September. The pace of accumulation has slowed sharply: the average rate of external debt accumulation slowed to 2.1 percent…
The world economy is projected to grow 2.6 percent in 2026 and 2.9 percent in 2027, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in the September update of its World Economic Situation and Prospects. Both figures are 0.1 percentage points above its May forecasts. They remain below expectations at the start of the…
UN Trade and Development, UNCTAD, highlighted on 28 August 2026 its upcoming ninth World Investment Forum, to be held in Doha, Qatar, from 25 to 27 October 2026, under the theme “Investing in the Future,” against the backdrop of its World Investment Report 2026, which showed global foreign direct investment rose 6 percent to 1.6…
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index averaged 131.1 points in July 2026, up 0.7 points or 0.6 percent on June and 1.3 points or 1.0 percent above July 2025, the organization reported on 7 August. The index remains 29.1 points, or 18.2 percent, below the peak it reached in March 2022. The stability…
Global goods trade expanded by about 12.5 percent in the first half of 2026 from a year earlier, reaching around 13.7 trillion dollars, the United Nations trade and development body UNCTAD said in its Global Trade Update for July and August 2026. Trade in services grew about 10.5 percent over the same period, and together…
The number of people facing hunger around the world fell for a third consecutive year in 2025, to about 645 million, or 7.8 percent of the global population, according to the latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, published jointly by five United Nations agencies on 21 July 2026….
Global foreign direct investment rose about 6 percent to 1.6 trillion dollars in 2025, ending two years of decline, but the recovery was unevenly spread and left many developing economies behind, the United Nations trade and development body UNCTAD said in its World Investment Report 2026, published on 7 July. The report described a global…