UNCTAD: Launch of the Least Developed Countries Report 2024: Leveraging Carbon Markets for Development
4 November 2024.
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From UNCTAD: Mounting fiscal deficits and debt in least developed countries require urgent international action
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18 September 2024. "Amidst a polycrisis, these countries face an increasingly unsustainable financial situation, with high structural deficits and unaffordable debt, underscoring the urgent need for international action. Debt is one of the most pressing challenges facing developing nations, especially the least developed countries (LDCs). (...).
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WTO Public Forum event: Making trade part of the solution: Climate change in the LDCs
11 September 2024, 17:00-18:15, Geneva.
Organizer: EIF
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9th Global Aid for Trade Review side event: Strategies to position trade at the core of the LDC development agenda
27 June 2024,
Organized by UNCTAD, Commonwealth Secretariat, Government of Nepal.
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Webinar on harnessing intellectual property rights for innovation, development and economic transformation in LDCs (UNCTAD, Commonwealth Secretariat)
29 January 2024. This webinar will officially launch a joint report by the Commonwealth Secretariat and UNCTAD that explores how LDCs can use intellectual property protection strategically to stimulate innovation and development, and craft regimes and systems for intellectual property rights that help to build productive capacities, enable technological upgrading, boost trade and investment and drive economic transformation.
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LDCs Participation in Digital Economy Agreements and E-commerce Provisions in FTA (Cambodia) (UNCTAD e-Week 2023)
4 Dec 2023
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Enabling a “Green Seize” of New Trade Opportunities for LDCs: Learning from the Covid-19 response to address the climate emergency (Session host: WTO)
3 December 2023. WTO events at COP28.
Event held during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) by EIF and ODI, hosted at the Trade House (International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat).
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From UNCTAD: Time to unlock the creative potential of least developed countries
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9 March 2023. Creative industries can play a critical role in building more resilient, sustainable and inclusive economies in the world’s most vulnerable countries.
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Regional workshop on coherent strategies for productive capacities development in African least developed countries - UNCTAD, United Republic of Tanzania, REPOA
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From UNCTAD: Supporting investment promotion in least developed countries
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26 September 2022. A multi-agency programme strengthens the capacity of investment promotion agencies to increase sustainable investment in least developed countries. Read more here: