UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2016: More inclusive and sustained growth through structural transformation

South Africa - 30 October 2017

“In global economic terms, 2016 will be remembered as a year of living dangerously,” said UNCTAD’s Igor Paunovic in a webinar live-streamed from Geneva to the North-West University’s TRADE research entity on 25 November 2016. Presenting the main findings of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2016, Mr Paunovic, a Senior Economist in UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, remarked that the world is witnessing growing economic and political discontent, evidenced in rising anti-globalisation and anti-establishment rhetoric. The shock Brexit vote and US election result are clear signs of changing sentiment about international relations and the nature of trade.

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