Keyword: UNCTAD
27 September: Launch of UNCTAD’s LDC Report
On 27 September, UNCTAD will launch the 2021 issue of its Least Developed Countries Report: The least developed countries in the post-COVID world -...
UNCTAD policy brief: enhancing productive capacities and transforming LDCs
13 September 2021. UNCTAD has published a new Policy Brief on "Enhancing productive capacities and transforming least developed country economies through institution-building: Upcoming United...
A Brief History of the LDCs: podcast with CDP member Taffere Tesfachew, with UNCDF...
CDP Member Taffere Tesfachew discusses the history of the LDC category, support by the UN system to the category, and the prospects and challenges...
UNCTAD/EIF on Trade and Gender in LDCs
29 June 2021. A joint UNCTAD-EIF publication discusses the gender implications of international trade and regional/global economic integration in the LDCs. It examines the socio-economic...
Productive Capacities for the New Decade, side-event at LDC5 Prepcom
Why is productive capacity central to the sustainable development of least developed countries (LDCs)? How can LDCs, with support from development partners, expand their...
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...
Publications and reports on LDCs
Articles, publications and reports featured on this portal
Papers and reports on LDC graduation
LDCs and COVID-19
Committee for Development Policy (CDP):
LDC...
Preparing for graduation: meeting in Lao PDR ahead of CDP Triennial Review
11 September 2020. In February 2021, the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will hold its triennial review of the LDC category. Lao PDR is...
Papers, reports, articles on graduation
Recent papers, reports, blogs on LDC graduation by UN system entities and others (see also other content on graduation on this portal; UNCTAD vulnerability profiles; UNDESA...
Tech Access Partnership for LDCs amid COVID-19
The United Nations Technology Bank, together with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization...
LDC information at the UN, WTO and others
LDCs and the Committee for Development Policy (including list of LDCs, information on the graduation process, inclusion and graduation criteria)
Information about LDCs...
Covid-19 and the LDCs – resources, monitoring, articles
Statements
Covid-19 and graduation from the LDC category – statement by the CDP, 12 May 2020
LDCs Dialogue with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on...
