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
- 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
Namibia
30 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, Italy
28 – 29 October 2025
Executive meeting on negotiating and drafting rules of origin (RoO) for the LDC WTO Group in preparation for MC-14
Florence, Italy
23 September 2025
Dialogue on inequality, poverty and trade in Africa and the least developed countries
Room VII, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
17 – 18 September 2025
Training workshop on industrial policy - Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
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