Regional workshop on coherent strategies for productive capacities development in African least developed countries - UNCTAD, United Republic of Tanzania, REPOA
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From UNCTAD: Supporting investment promotion in least developed countries
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26 September 2022. A multi-agency programme strengthens the capacity of investment promotion agencies to increase sustainable investment in least developed countries. Read more here:
UNCTAD online course: Trade and gender linkages with a focus on least developed countries
Trade and trade policy can play a key role in fostering a more sustainable and resilient recovery from the pandemic. They also remain a powerful driving force in supporting the global efforts towards the realization of broader women’s economic empowerment and gender equality goals. For this to happen, an in-depth understanding of the gender ramifications of trade policy is necessary to make trade a tool for achieving more inclusive and gender-equal economies after the pandemic.
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A Brief History of the LDCs: podcast with CDP member Taffere Tesfachew, by UNCDF Capital Musings
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CDP Member Taffere Tesfachew discusses the history of the LDC category, support by the UN system to the category, and the prospects and challenges for LDCs, including issues related to graduation, in the context of the crisis induced by COVID-19 and climate change:
LDC5 Prepcom side-event: Productive Capacities for the New Decade
Why is productive capacity central to the sustainable development of least developed countries (LDCs)? How can LDCs, with support from development partners, expand their productive capacity through domestic policies including efforts to build back better from COVID-19? How can the Fifth United Nations Conference on the LDCs (LDC5) contribute to these efforts through the new Programme of Action?
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WTO members discuss downturn in LDC trade, role of trade in eradicating poverty
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21 April 2021. From the WTO: "An analysis of least-developed countries’ (LDCs) trade flows in 2020, presented to WTO members at a meeting of the Sub-Committee on LDCs on 19 April, revealed that the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trade was worse for LDCs than for the world as a whole.
LDCs - Recovery from COVID-19 - Tackling vulnerabilities and leveraging scarce resources
OHRLLS, OECD Development Centre and the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) held a virtual event on 21 and 23 October 2020 “The Road to the 5th?UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5): Recovery from COVID-19 - Tackling vulnerabilities and leveraging scarce resources” on 21 and 23 October 2020. Interpretation in English and French will be provided.
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