BY: Jorge Oliveros & Mariano Criado.BY: Jorge Oliveros & Mariano Criado.

THE UNCTADTHE UNCTAD

• UNCTAD. is the United Nations organization for trade and development , and for interrelated issues in finance, technology, investment and sustainable development.

• Its objective is to assist developing countries, especially the least developed countries, and countries with economies in development, to make them be in the global economy.

• It also helps the international community to promote a global partnership for development, increase coherence in global economic policymaking, and assure development gains for all from trade.

• They meet in Geneva.

THE UNCTAD HISTORYTHE UNCTAD HISTORY

• Foundation:• In 1960, the concerns about the place of developing countries in

international trade led many of these countries to call for the convening of a full-fledged conference specifically devoted to tackling these problems and identifying appropriate international actions.

• The first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was in Geneva in 1964. Given the magnitude of the problems at stake and the need to address them, the conference was institutionalized to meet every four years, with intergovernmental bodies meeting between sessions and a permanent secretariat providing the necessary substantive and logistical support.

• Simultaneously, the developing countries established the Group of 77 to voice their concerns. (Today, the G77 has 131 members.)

• There has been 59 meetings of the UNCTAD, this year is going to be the number 60.

Globalization and Globalization and Development strategiesDevelopment strategies

• Through Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD helps to manage the countries which are developing and its consequences. The programme gives policies at the national, regional and international level for its economic growth and its development. It studies the trends and prospects in the world economy, they make studies on the requirements for successful development strategies and on the debt problems of developing countries.

• It also gives support to developing countries in their integration into the international financial system and to manage their external debt.

DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT

• What the UNCTAD makes is helping the countries in development which what to enter in the type of economy that the countries of the first world are in. Every country in developing. More or less, they develop.

• Africa is the UNCTAD`s first point for working in it. In this continent, most of the countries are developing, but ones are stopped because of the war, just like Syria, but others continue slowly like South Sudan, which is a ‘new’ country.

TRADETRADE• Definition:• noun, verb, trad·ed, trad·ing,adjective

• noun1.the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging  commodities,at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.

• 2.a purchase or sale; business deal or transaction.

• 3.an exchange of items, usually without payment of money.

• 4.any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood.

• 5.some line of skilled manual or mechanical work; craft: the trade ofa carpenter; printer's trade.

TRADE IN THE UNTRADE IN THE UN

• In the UN, the trade focuses in been effective. This means that between its member states, they trade with products of different countries and of different things. Trade makes a country rich. The countries trade mostly with China, which is getting more and more powerful because of its products and of its trade.

• They trade with different purposes. Ones trade for having food enough, others, trade fot having products for industry, others, with material for science, and so on.

• The trade is the basic unit of a country for maintaining its country powerful. This is why in the UN, is so important.

TRADE IN THE MOST TRADE IN THE MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRIESIMPORTANT COUNTRIES

• For us, the most important ones are the 5 permanent countries.• China; in trade, is the most develop country. Is an industrial country.

Whatever, they make, they sell it in its country or internationally.• United States; it’s the most powerful country in the world, and also

one of the most consumers countries. EE.UU does make its objects, cars, games and that staff in EE,UU, they make it in China, but they trade with it because their companies are the ones which maintain the market.

• United Kingdom; this country doesn’t trade much. Is very important because of its language and because in the world wars they had a very important role. Its power comes of its economy.

• Russian Federation; trade isn't its strongest point. They mostly trade between them. What they have are industries and a consuming population.

• France; industry country. Maintained because of its good economy, tourism, and trade of its products. Its industry is mostly of its cars and of its shops all around the world.

TRADE BETWEEN 3RD WORLD TRADE BETWEEN 3RD WORLD COUNTRIESCOUNTRIES

• The 3rd world countries have got a lot of raw material (this is the case of countries in Africa). They trade with their raw materials, but the money that they have for their materials, is really low, so they don’t get out of their bad economy.

• They do not trade much between them, they trade internationally.

• What they'd have to do, is to exploit their materials and convert them from raw ones to the ones we use, commerce with them and get more money.

SECRETARY GENERALSECRETARY GENERAL

• The secretary general, Mukhisa Kiyuyi, is from Kenya. Is the seventh secretary. He was and is a very important and intelligent person,. In the University and collage, he had excellent grades, and thanks of it and of his ideas, he has this place in the UN.

• In the UN, he has worked in the general assembly, he has been consulant… He has worked as many things related with social and relations.

SOURCESSOURCES

Official UNCTAD Web:

http://unctad.org

UNCTAD Wikipedia Page:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Conference_on_Trade_and_Development

• Weebly page:

• http://globalclassrooms.weebly.com/

• UNECE page:

• http://www.unece.org/trade/welcome.html