Services are transforming least developed economies – but jobs and productivity lag behind
In a new report, UNCTAD examines why services growth in the world’s poorest countries has yet to deliver broader development.
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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
- 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
10 February 2026
Launch of the Least Developed Countries Report 2025
26 – 28 November 2025
Inception Workshop of the BCLME IV project
Namibia30 October 2025
LDCs in a fractioned trading world: why WTO matters more than ever for LDC and how to best prepare an LDC Agenda for MC14
Florence, Italy28 – 29 October 2025
Executive meeting on negotiating and drafting rules of origin (RoO) for the LDC WTO Group in preparation for MC-14
Florence, Italy23 September 2025
Dialogue on inequality, poverty and trade in Africa and the least developed countries
Room VII, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland17 – 18 September 2025
Training workshop on industrial policy - Senegal
Dakar, SenegalDocuments
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