Briefing to the WTO Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries

The Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is mandated to look at systemic issues of interest to LDCs in the multilateral trading system.

The objective of this briefing is two-fold:

• To present the research and findings of UNCTAD's The Least Developed Countries Report 2020: Productive capacities for the new decade; and
• To present the methodological approach and results of UNCTAD's Productive Capacities Index (PCI).