Media accreditation is open for the World Investment Forum 2026.
Cover the room. Doha, 25 to 27 October.
Last year $1.6 trillion was invested worldwide - most of it in just 20 countries.
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High-value business services — research, engineering, consulting — are a $2 trillion market.
Least developed countries hold 0.4% of it.
Closing that gap starts with better data.
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The World Investment Forum 2026 opens in Doha on 25 October. More than 160 countries, one theme: investing in the future.
Registration is open. Don't miss it.
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Seaweed needs no farmland, no freshwater, no feed.
Raw and lightly processed seaweed is 70% of what the world exports by weight — and 32% of what it's worth.
The value sits further up the chain.
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A decade ago, about a third of developing countries' exports went to other developing countries.
Today it is 57%.
Services are what makes it possible — and they are growing twice as fast as goods trade.
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More investment is not the same as better investment.
What changes a country's future is what comes with the money: technology, skills, and work for local firms.
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Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, critical minerals, clean energy now take almost half the value of all new investment projects. In 2020 it was 16%.
Who builds them is the question.
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When a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz pushes up energy and shipping costs, the cost of credit decides who stays in global trade.
A small business in a developing economy borrows at 15.8%. In a developed economy, 6.3%.
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623 proposals.
That is how many ideas came in for the second Supply Chain Innovation Challenge, now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part.
Finalists will hear from us at the end of September.
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Software, design, accounting — services delivered online now make up 56% of the world's services exports.
In the least developed countries: 16%.
The fastest-growing part of trade is passing them by.
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Trade decides what food costs, which factories hire, and which countries get to grow.
UN Trade and Development works with 195 countries to make it work for more of them.
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56% of the services the world exports can now be delivered online.
The least developed countries account for 0.6% of world services exports.
The gap is connectivity, payment systems and skills — not talent.
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The World Investment Forum 2026, 25–27 October. More than 160 countries. One theme: investing in the future.
Registration is open.
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Lower-income countries receive just 10% of new investment in artificial intelligence, chips and clean energy.
How they get in: on the agenda at the World Investment Forum, Doha, 25–27 October.
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Senegal’s economy is 5x bigger than in 1970. But 91% of the population live on arid land and manufacturing is just 16% of total value added. There’s $658M in untapped exports to Africa if trade barriers fall.
Is Senegal ready to leave the LDC list?unctad.org/publication/vulnerability-profi...…
Investment is concentrating in a few sectors: digital technology, clean energy, semiconductors, critical minerals.
What about the countries outside those flows?
Geneva this week. Then the World Investment Forum in Doha, 25–27 October.
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The world's money is not going where it used to.
From 25 to 27 October in Doha, the governments, investors and businesses who decide where it goes meet at the World Investment Forum.
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Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not.
This week we brought entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia and Latin America to Silicon Valley, and signed a partnership with @founding to open doors for founders in developing countries.
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Today the @UNGeneva held a press conference where we announced The 9th World Investment Forum 2026.
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Who decides what the world builds next?
In October, governments, investors and businesses meet in Doha to work that out.
Artificial intelligence. Climate and oceans. Sustainable finance. Entrepreneurship.
25–27 October. ➡️ worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org
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Join us in Doha.
The World Investment Forum 2026, 25–27 October. Ministers and investors from more than 160 countries, on climate, artificial intelligence and where the world's capital goes next.
Be there for the conversation.
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2weeks left to apply, UNCTAD wants to hear from you
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⏰ Deadline: 4 Sept
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🚀 @UNCTAD & @founding are joining up to connect entrepreneurs with mentors, investors and founders around the world.
🤝 The partnership launches at FounderX, Silicon Valley — 25–27 August
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🚀 UN Trade and Development and @founding Institute are joining up to connect entrepreneurs with mentors, investors and founders around the world.
🤝 The partnership launches at FounderX, Silicon Valley — 25–27 August
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118 countries have no seat at the tables where the rules for artificial intelligence are being written.
Most of them are developing countries. Safety, transparency and accountability are being decided without them.
➡️ Read the analysis: unctad.org/news/ensuring-ai-benefits-every...
Silicon Valley has the network. Most entrepreneurs don't live there.
@UNCTAD & @founding are joining up to connect entrepreneurs with mentors, investors and founders around the world.
🎥 Hear from the founders making the trip.
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On #WorldPhotographyDay, here is the @UNCTAD photo that was selected at the exhibition “Shared Lives, Shared Future”: www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/un80
On #WorldHumanitarianDay a reminder that economic shocks are where many emergencies start.
Nearly 1 billion people live in countries where a jump in fuel prices strains the same budgets that pay for food, medicine and transport.
#ActForHumanity
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Next stop for UN trade and Development? Silicon Valley.
UN Trade and Development and Founder Institute are joining up to connect entrepreneurs with mentors, investors and founders around the world.
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Trade in goods grew 12.5% in the first half of 2026, reaching US$13.7 trillion.
Our Global Trade Update tracks where trade is heading, every month. This edition: what artificial intelligence and electric vehicles are doing to it.
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Everyone argues about tariffs. For most countries, the paperwork costs more.
88% pay more for hidden trade rules than for tariffs.
Numbers like this, in your inbox, as often as you want.
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Young people are not waiting to be asked about their future. So we asked them anyway: what role does youth play in development?
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#InternationalYouthDay
The global economy isn't abstract. It's your grocery bill, six months earlier.
UN Trade and Development Insights sends you the numbers behind it.
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Less than a month to apply, UNCTAD wants to hear from you
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⏰ Deadline: 4 Sept
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We work with 195 countries to turn trade, finance, investment & the digital economy into engines of inclusive & sustainable growth – through expert analysis, technical support & global dialogue. unctad.org
Since 1964, UN Trade and Development has helped developing countries get a fairer share of the global economy.
The goal is simple: prosperity for all.
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Artificial intelligence is speeding up science.
The question is whether developing countries get to use it, or get left behind.
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Nearly 1 billion people live in the countries hit hardest by rising oil prices.
Oil is back to about 87 dollars a barrel after the ceasefire in the Strait of Hormuz collapsed.
➡️ Read the analysis: unctad.org/publication/strait-hormuz-disru...
Missed the World Investment Report 2026?
Global investment is recovering. But it is reaching fewer and fewer countries.
📊 Read the analysis: unctad.org/wir2026
World trade is booming.
Goods trade reached US$13.7 trillion in the first six months of 2026 — up 12.5%.
The growth is uneven across regions, and concentrated in East Asia.
➡️ Read the analysis: unctad.org/publication/global-trade-update...
🎥 عالمی نظام تجارتی ترجیحات (GSTP) کیا ہے؟ یہ معاہدہ ترقی پذیر ممالک کے درمیان محصولات کم کر کے تجارت کو آسان اور سستا بناتا ہے۔
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#جنوب_جنوب_تجارت
🎥 Tazama video hii fupi kuelewa Mfumo wa Kimataifa wa Upendeleo wa Biashara (GSTP) ni nini.
GSTP ni makubaliano ambapo nchi zinazoendelea hupunguziana ushuru wa forodha ili kufanya biashara kuwa rahisi na nafuu zaidi baina yao.
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⚓ Ports are key to cleaner, sustainable maritime trade.
UNCTAD trained 544 port professionals from 31 countries to cut emissions and boost energy efficiency.
Next: solutions showcased in Argentina, Sept 2026.
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