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State capacity – the ability to formulate public policies and accomplish policy goals – has been a crucial element of all successful development experiences. State capacity in the least developed countries has been continuously eroded since the 1980s, especially due to external economic and political pressures to undertake damaging austerity measures and to the negative impacts of some ways of delivering official development assistance. In the 50 years of the least developed country category, levels of development in most of the least developed countries have fallen behind those in other developing countries. Reversing the erosion of State capacity and achieving sustainable development will require conscious and intentional support from the international community for the efforts of the least developed countries to strengthen and deepen State capacity.