Least developed countries
We support least developed countries in achieving structural economic transformation, enhancing productive capacity, reducing poverty, and building resilience to adverse factors.
Least developed countries
We support least developed countries in achieving structural economic transformation, enhancing productive capacity, reducing poverty, and building resilience to adverse factors.
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- UN recognition of LDCs
- List of LDCs
- Map of the LDCs
- LDCs: Graduation support package
- Country profiles of LDCs
- Productive capacities
Areas of work
- The Enhanced Integrated Framework
- eTrade Readiness Assessments
- Trade and poverty reduction
- Rules of origin for least developed countries
- Geographical indications for least developed countries
- Productive Capacities Index
Projects
- Enhancing Mano River Union resilience through export diversification and regional value chains
- Structural economic progress towards and beyond graduation from LDC status
- Helping least developed countries achieve structural economic progress toward and beyond graduation
- Coherent strategies for productive capacity development in African LDCs
- A New Trade Policy and Strategy for ASEAN LDCs
- Upgrade and diversify their fish exports in selected LDCs
Meetings
26 October 2026
European Union GSP briefing for UNCTAD – What is at stake for LDCs?
Online and Geneva, Switzerland
14 – 18 September 2026
Industrial policy study tour in Indonesia for Cambodian policymakers
Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia
3 – 4 September 2026
National validation workshop on the vulnerability profile of Uganda
Kampala, Uganda
23 – 24 July 2026
Technical workshop to advance transit, transport and digitalization reforms along the Cotonou–Niamey Corridor
Cotonou, Benin
24 – 25 June 2026
National validation workshop on the Vulnerability Profile of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
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