Keyword: Productive Capacity
UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report 2020: Productive capacities for the new decade
The 2020 edition of UNCTAD's annual Least Developed Countries report, launched on 3 December, focuses on "Productive capacities for the new decade". From the UNCTAD website:
"The least...
UN ECA: Review of Progress of African LDCs
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has released its 2020 Review of progress made on the Programme of Action for the LDCs...
Prioritising the Poor: LDCs and Trade in Covid-19-Related Medical Supplies (The Commonwealth)
3 August 2020. New report by the Commonwealth Secretariat - "Prioritising the Poor: LDCs and Trade in COVID-19-Related Medical Supplies", Trade Hot Topics, issue...
Piloting Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Least Developed Countries: Impacts, Experiences, and Lessons Learnt: A...
3 August 2020. Sustainability reporting practice is scarce in most LDCs. UN-OHRLLS commissioned the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to support two companies in LDCs...
A framework for LDC-V focusing on productive capacities
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) recommends that the Fifth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC-V) adopts the theme “Expanding productive capacity...
UNIDO LDC Ministerial Conference, November 2
The eighth UNIDO Ministerial Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) took place on 2 November 2019 in Abu Dhabi, preceding the UNIDO General...
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...
Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF): Trade-Related Assistance to LDCs
EIF is the only multilateral partnership dedicated exclusively to assisting LDCs in their use of trade as an engine for growth, sustainable development, and...
Technology Bank for LDCs
The Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020 (Istanbul Programme of Action or IPOA) called for the establishment of...
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...
International support for the least developed countries: A different way?
Daniel Gay, Inter-Regional Adviser on LDCs
Committee for Development Policy Secretariat
Part I of this series questioned the theoretical background behind the existing international support measures...
Rethinking support measures for the least developed countries
Daniel Gay, Inter-Regional Adviser on LDCs
Committee for Development Policy Secretariat
Part I, below, discusses critically the theoretical background behind the existing international support measures for...
