UNCTAD 14: Nairobi “Maafikiano” barely saves minimal finance and development mandates
Guest blog by Aldo Caliari Rethinking Bretton Woods Project Director Aldo Caliari writes on the Outcome of the XIV UNCTAD Conference.Republished from the Center for Concern website . Due to UNCTAD's decidedly pro-South and uncompromising development-focused mission, its quadrennial conferences have traditionally been North –South showdowns. Coming a few months after the adoption of the ambitious and universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 associated goals, the theme of the XIV Quadrennial Conference of UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) was “From Decisions to Actions.” There was, therefore, reason to expect that this time members would bridge their differences for the sake of reinforcing mandates of the organization critical to the Agenda’s implementation. But that was not the case, and the dynamics were a lot more akin to the difficult ones witnessed in the inaugural Financing for Development (FFD) Forum last April. The ...