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Interview with Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Q. Dr Supachai, you have a long and impressive career in both the national and international sphere. Which do you consider as being the most challenging? I think that both my national and international careers have been highly challenging in different ways. When I was working for the government in Thailand, we were faced with more immediate challenges: how to engage in agricultural development; how to achieve agricultural price stability; regional integration; and trying to deal with the financial…

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UNIDO and public health

The onset of the global fuel-food-financial crises risks unhinging the fragile economic and industrial progress made in developing countries, and pushing millions of people below the poverty line. This trend has the potential not only to negate development successes in reducing hunger and malnutrition, but also to jeopardize short and medium term progress and investment into primary health infrastructures. The complexity of the human crisis that the world faces in its efforts to achieve international development goals, is even…

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