UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality.

The learning and teaching education resource for business and economic studies including lessons plans and learning activities.

The OECD Observer magazine keeps the public ahead of economic and social policy challenges of our time. Aimed at senior policymakers, business people, researchers, the media and civil society. Read about: US and Japanese economies, Mexico, the 21st century, Germany, unemployment, regulatory reform, food safety, development aid, environment, global warming, climate change. Links to OECD publications.

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Official website of the World Trade Organization, which regulates trade and tariffs worldwide. Formed as successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO is the only international body dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, the legal ground-rules for international commerce and for trade policy.