1. In the morning, Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, and Mr. Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, addressed the Working Party. Mr. Ricupero focused his remarks mainly on the forthcoming Third UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries to be held in Brussels in May. He invited the ILO to take an active role in the preparations and proceedings of LDC II...

Commodity price stabilisation schemes are again topical, this time as a result of pressure from UNCTAD for an integrated programme on commodities as part of the 'New International Order'. Despite the long history of interest in the subject and its evident importance for developing countries the conventional analysis of the impact of price stabilisation is remarkably simplistic.^ The theory was ...

Buckley & Strange (2015) have highlighted the major changes in the global location of economic activity over the past 30 years, with the emerging economies assuming greater shares relative to the advanced economies. They noted that the major drivers of these changes included inter alia economic restructuring and market liberalization in many countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere; fina...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan masukan terhadap kinerja Terminal Khusus (Tersus) milik PT Pertamina Trans Kontinental Cabang Plaju berdasarkan standar dari Kementerian Perhubungan serta menganalisis pengaruh waiting time dan berth occupancy ratio integrated port time. Analisis dilakukan dengan menghitung time, pada bulan Januari 2019 sampai Desember 2021. Hasil analisis menunjukkan b...

The labour market consequences of globalization in general, and offshoring in particular, have been hotly debated in recent public discussions and academia, in particular in industrialized countries. One of the reasons for this may be illustrated with reference to the World Investment Report 2004 (UNCTAD, 2004), which provides examples of recent offshoring cases in services industries in the Un...

Various concepts, approaches and methodologies, useful for harnessing the traditional knowledge (TK), are compared. Potentials of a preliminary comprehensive and integrated traditional and scientific knowledge base are discussed – as part of a participatory computer-based decision support system (DSS) for ensuring access, benefit sharing and documentation of TK for sustainable socio-economic de...

A.1. MODELLING AGRICULTURAL TRADE POLICIES............................................................................3 A.2. THE ORIGINS OF ATPSM.............................................................................................................3 A.3. ATPSM A DETERMINISTIC COMPARATIVE STATIC PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL.....................4 A.4. EVALUABLE AND NON-EVALUABLE TRADE POLICIES...