Fahmida Khatun offered UNCTAD panel membership

Dr Fahmida Khatun, the executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has been invited to be a member of the High-level Advisory Board on Productive Capacities Index (PCI) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

UNCTAD launched PCI as a practical tool that will help member states to monitor and benchmark their progress and achievements in building new and enhancing existing productive capacities over time, and their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The PCI High-level Advisory Board will advise UNCTAD on its research and policy-oriented agenda related to productive capacities.

These would include, among others, the expansion of policy and institutional frameworks, further development and refinement of the methods and international standards for the measurement of productive capacities.

The High-level Advisory Board on PCI will work in broad collaboration with the academia, policymakers, statisticians and experts working on related programmes and endeavours.