These LDC countries face severe structural impediments to growth and account for less than 2 percent of world GDP and around 1 percent of world trade. The CDP reviews the list of least developed ...

State of the Least Developed Countries 2021. Building back better in response to COVID-19 ...

Rabab Fatima is Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).As the world grapples ...

Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has launched two new initiatives to help countries, particularly the least ...

This is true of mountainous countries like Afghanistan. Areas likely to be hit by floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or by drought tend to remain less developed. The map below ...