UNCTAD/CFC/UN-OHRLLS side event at the High-Level Meeting on the Follow-up to the 2nd UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

2 June 2015

08:00 - 08:00 hrs.

Livingstone, Zambia

Key Issues

[Side Event]

Promoting structural economic transformation in LLDCs: Productive Capacities, Commodities and the Post-2015 Development agenda for LLDCs

This side event is organized jointly by UNCTAD, the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) and the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).

Provisional Timetable

13:10 - 13:20	Presentation of the report on "Building Productive Capacities to Enhance Structural Transformation in Landlocked Developing Countries". (OHRLS)
13:20 - 13:40	Trade as a driver of building productive capacities and promoting structural transformation. (UNCTAD)
13:40 - 14:00	The Role of commodities in building economic resilience in LLDCs (CFC)
14:00 - 14:45	Statements or remarks by Member States and other participants.
14:45 - 15:00	Summing up by moderator

Language(s)

English

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