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InterviewGlobal trade
Rich world uses green policies to hold back the poor, says UN trade chief
...And the developed countries have more fiscal space to subsidise in the areas that are good for ‘quote, unquote’, the environment,” Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of United Nations Conference on Trade...
December 24, 2023
Moral Money
Can the SDG goals still be saved? Premium content
...“We need a paradigm shift because now we have no paradigm to speak of — the Washington consensus has failed but nothing has replaced it,” as Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of Unctad, observed....
September 18, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Rebeca Grynspan
The world lacks an effective global system to deal with debt
...The writer is an economist serving as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development There is an alarming tendency among the international community to regard debts in the developing...
February 1, 2023
Moral Money
Opec cartel’s lesson for biodiversity Premium content
...The report from the body — whose members range from ex-US treasury secretary Hank Paulson to Unctad secretary-general Rebeca Grynspan and Brazilian indigenous leader Almir Narayamoga Suruí — is a valuable...
August 11, 2023
Letter
Letter: Developing nations require a system to avoid financial meltdown
...Rebeca Grynspan Secretary-General United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland...
July 13, 2022
Moral Money
The push begins for a fossil fuel crackdown at COP28 Premium content
...(Kenza Bryan) Smart read A new independent sovereign debt authority is needed to address the worsening debt crisis in developing nations, writes Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the United Nations...
February 3, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Brazilian politics
Brazil’s supreme court declares ‘secret budget’ unconstitutional
...Gil Castello Branco, Open Accounts’ secretary-general, said this was equivalent to six times the size of Brazil’s environmental budget....
December 19, 2022
EU economy
French finance minister says EU debt rules are ‘obsolete’
...Letter in response to this article: Developing nations require a system to avoid financial meltdown / From Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva...
July 7, 2022
Global Economy
‘Post-Covid’ remains a mirage for many developing economies, warns UN
...Grynspan, secretary-general of Unctad....
September 15, 2021
Emerging markets
Poorest countries face $11bn surge in debt repayments
...We really are at risk of another lost decade for developing countries,” said Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development....
January 17, 2022
Emerging markets
Two-speed pandemic recovery will worsen inequality, World Bank warns
...Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, said the distribution of vaccines worldwide had been “lousy and irrational”, with advanced economies having secured supply...
January 11, 2022
Covid-19 vaccines
Latin America urgently needs vaccines from west, top official warns
...Grynspan will step down from the secretariat next month after seven years to become the first female secretary-general of the United National Conference on Trade and Development....
July 11, 2021
Letter
Letter: Middle-income countries require IMF assistance too
...Rebeca Grynspan Ibero-American Secretary GeneralMember, G20 High Level Independent Panel On Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response,Former UN Under-Secretary-GeneralFormer Vice-President...
March 5, 2021
The Big Read
Emerging markets: all risk and few rewards?
...“Two years into the pandemic,” says Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, “the problems [of debt, inflation and slow growth] will only mount.”...
February 15, 2022
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Poorer countries need more global assistance
...Grynspan, Ibero-American Secretary General, Member, G20 High Level Independent Panel On Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Madrid, Spain...
March 1, 2021
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
Emerging markets
Emerging economies call for more financial help after G20 deal
...Vera Songwe, secretary-general of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, which is helping to co-ordinate the continent’s debt response, said that freezing debt payments until the end of the year was not...
April 17, 2020
News in-depthThe Big Read
Why the developing world needs a bigger pandemic response
...Vera Songwe, UN under-secretary general and head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, says the last thing developing countries need is enforced private-sector involvement in debt relief....
November 19, 2020
Emerging markets
Mnuchin defends opposition to emerging markets liquidity plan
...Richard Kozul-Wright, director of development strategies at Unctad, the UN trade and development agency, said: “This is our equivalent of the Great Depression . . ....
April 16, 2020
Foreign direct investment
Global foreign investment contracts for third year in a row
...Mukhisa Kituyi, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), which tracks dealmaking, portfolio and greenfield investment, said: “For some time now, the global policy...
June 12, 2019
EM SquaredCourtney Fingar
African investment: putting FDI into the SDGs Premium content
...Mukhisa Kituyi, the Unctad secretary-general, says the subject is intrinsically linked with another: foreign direct investment....
July 21, 2016
Global Economy
Misinvoicing of commodities costs billions to developing world
...Mukhisa Kituyi, secretary-general of Unctad, said it was premature to accuse anyone of anything. “We’re not looking for a culprit but to identify . . . a way to overcome this haemorrhage”....
July 18, 2016
Recruitment
Georg Kell, Arabesque Partners, board vice-chairman
...In the late 1990s, Mr Kell helped craft a speech for Kofi Annan, then UN secretary-general, calling on business to look beyond profit and to contribute to society, the environmental and global governance...
October 28, 2015
Global trade
UN trade body criticises free trade
...Writing in the report, Mukhisa Kituyi, Unctad’s secretary-general, called on governments to use incomes policies such as minimum wages to support global demand, along with expansionary fiscal policy....
September 10, 2014
World
World diary: April 7 – April 13
...Abdullah El Badri, secretary-general of Opec from Libya, attends....
April 6, 2014
Middle East protests
We urge UN Security Council to revoke Assad’s licence to kill
...General of UNCTAD; former Minister of Finance of Brazil Peter Singer, Philosopher K.C....
March 12, 2012

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