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LDCs
08 April 2021
Hard-won progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS is being eroded slowly but significantly.
26 February 2021
26 February 2021
24 February 2021
Press Release
As multiple crises swirl, from COVID-19 to climate change and debt, Africa’s 33 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are gathering to assess the state of their development goals and agree how best to get back on track.
22 January 2021
The most ambitious agenda possible for the world’s most vulnerable states will be agreed at the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, Qatar in January 2022.
04 December 2020
NEW YORK 4 December 2020 –?The small island nation of Vanuatu is celebrating today as it is no longer classified as one of the world’s least developed countries, or LDCs.