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5、ed Nations Conference on Trade and DevelopmentUNCTAD/DITC/TAB/2022/8ISBN:978-92-1-113081-2eISBN:978-92-1-002275-0Sales No.E.22.II.D.50AcknowledgementsThis report has been prepared by Dr.Axel Marx,Deputy Director,Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies,University of Leuven,and Ms.Charline Depoort

6、er,also of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies,in collaboration with Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba and Niematallah E.A.Elamin,UNCTAD.The report is based on the University of Leuvens online edX course,“Sustainable Trade”.The authors would like to thank Ralf Peters and Alessandro Nicita(UN