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Togo plans investment reforms to drive sustainable growth

UNCTAD outlines measures to help the country strengthen the business climate to promote long-term growth and tackle pressing development challenges.

Empowering women through bee project in Angola

An UNCTAD project is harnessing the power of bees to help women improve their livelihoods while creating sustainable opportunities in rural communities in the southern African nation.
Entrepreneurs Richard Odjrado (left) and Caludia Togbe.

Benin triples number of companies opened by youth

The country’s young people are chasing their entrepreneurial dreams amid a digitalization boom powered by e-government tools developed by UNCTAD
African woman entrepreneur with digital payment device.

UNCTAD: Africa needs to rethink export diversification to survive economic shocks

The continent’s free trade area, a growing middle class, an emerging consumer market, increased access to financial services and technology, and dynamic private entrepreneurs can help diversify African economies.
Farm attendants working in Moshi, Tanzania.

New tool to measure countries’ SDG performance

UNCTAD’s Productive Capacities Index will track development, help countries transform economies
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