Dutch JPO programme vacancy open to nationals of LDCs
19 May 2019. A Dutch Junior Professional Officer programme vacancy is open to nationals of LDCs. Applications are open until May 26, 2019. More...
New fund for LDC participation in WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations
17 May 2019. The WTO Director-General announced on May 3, 2019, the creation of a fund to enable the participation of capital-based delegations from...
REX digital system for LDC exporters and EU importers
13 May 2019. Started in 2017, the Registered Export System (REX) is an electronic system used to certify the origin of products from developing...
ESCAP and WTO workshop on LDC graduation
5 May 2019. The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) hosted a...
Progress of African LDCs in IPoA priority areas
27 March 2019. At the 52nd Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (March 20-26, 2019), the Committee of Experts assessed...
Empower Women, Power Trade – a new EIF initiative in LDCs
A new initiative led by the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), ‘Empower Women, Power Trade’, aims at shaping policy and bringing women in LDCs into decision-making bodies...
Committee for Development Policy addresses LDC issues
The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) held its twenty-first plenary session from March 11 to 15. Among other issues, the CDP addressed...
New strategic plan for the EIF, 2019-2022
The Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), which is dedicated to addressing the trade capacity needs of LDCs, has a new strategic plan for the period...
New UNCDF report on blended finance in LDCs
The report ‘Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries’ prepared by UNCDF in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Southern Voice...
EU launches procedure to temporarily suspend trade preferences to Cambodia
The European Union announced on February 11, 2019, that it would start the "process that could lead to the temporary suspension of Cambodia's preferential access to...
New report on the “State of the Least Developed Countries”
The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) has released...
General Assembly Resolution on LDCs
In December 2018 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 73/242 on the "Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries". The...
