With increasing national earning power as well as access to better health care and education, four countries—Bhutan, Kiribati, São Tomé and Principe and Solomon Islands—will be recommended for ...

Participants in the eighth round table meeting of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries stressed that the countries that graduated from that list still need support to ...

New York, Lusaka – 1 April 2025 – The third edition of the LDC Future Forum opened today in Zambia, Lusaka bringing together policymakers, researchers, the private sector, and other stakeholders to ...

The grouping of 48 Least Developed Countries (LDC) constitutes 25% of the total United Nations membership, and India is set to announce further concessions for the block when it hosts the two day ...

In a globalised world, the term Least Developed Countries (LDCs) represents a crucial category of nations that face profound structural challenges to sustainable development. Defined by the United ...

The Least Developed Countries (LDC) group constitutes 47 countries, mostly in Africa and some in Asia (including Bangladesh), officially recognised by the United Nations (UN). Countries belonging to ...

The estimates of the total losses and damages run into many trillions of US dollars. In a major leap forward, Bangladesh has become eligible to graduate to a developing country from a least developed ...

Kigali 15 December (ECA)- After several years of resilience following the global financial crisis, economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has declined sharply since 2012 and ...

As Nepal prepares to leave the least developed country (LDC) category, it needs to manage the impact on its export sector. In February 2018, the government of Nepal officially requested the UN not ...

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima said the graduating and the graduated countries from the LDC categories need extended international support to ...

The International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment (INCHRITI) and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) believe that human rights must form an important dimension of ...