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The two words at UN trade talks that got delegates to strike a deal in Nairobi

In regular conversations, the term ‘policy space’ is pretty inoffensive and hardly raises an eyebrow.

But at the just-concluded 14th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the meaning of these two words saw negotiators spend sleepless nights in a room at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC).

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