🟥 DIRECT | Okapi Service : pourquoi la RDC peine à se developper ?
...g after the risk is gone. Showing up precisely because the risk is there.
📈 In Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, fragile settings and markets where conventiona...
This webinar was organized by the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
Every continent has poor or middle-in...
UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)...
215. How China’s trade is holding back developing countries
Arvind Subramanian (PIIE) explains how poorer countries are being squeezed by China’s failure to grow out of many industries important to their economic development (27:44).
Around 28 million people in Afghanistan were unable to meet their most basic needs in 2025, according to UNDP’s latest Afghanistan Socioeconomic Review.
Climate shocks, declining aid, and restri...
...gh Representative Rabab Fatima delivered opening remarks to the Special Body on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), and Small Island Developing St...
Fragile states are the only places in the world where poverty is increasing. And by 2030, they will be home to around two-thirds of the world’s poor. At the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, Nonresid...
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Bangladesh is preparing for a historic milestone: graduating from the group of Least Developed Countries. But the world Bangladesh is stepping into is very different from the one that ...
Development Challenges for Emerging Countries in an Uncertain World with Hernán Lacunza
“In terms of development, it may be more important to overcome the risk of a reversion than to focus on the speed of reforms.” — Hernán Lacunza, Former Minister of Treasury of Argentina and Minist...
CGD's Clemence Landers, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, and Catherine Pattillo look at how the Iran war compares to recent shocks like COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, how governments are responding—from fue...
Official development assistance (ODA) faced a steep decline in 2025, according to preliminary data from the #OECD.
ODA from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) fell by 23.1% in ...
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In our latest ranking with @deutsche_umwelthilfe, Darboven placed last on due diligence across EUDR, LkSG & CSDDD.
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This section walks learners through a concrete LNOB example using data from the Maldives, focusing on SDG Indicator 17.8.1 on internet use. It explains how the LNOB tree is constructed, starting fr...
Alternative Development in Lao PDR and Myanmar
In the hills and mountains of Southeast Asia, farming families faced a difficult choice. Grow opium poppy, or have nothing. For over 30 years, UNODC has been working to change that by offering them...
UNIDO in action - Focus on Latin America and the Caribbean
Home to over 650 million people, the LAC region possesses remarkable natural resources and a diverse economic landscape. Yet, it faces persistent structural challenges: 27% of the population lives ...
Two months after Cyclone Ditwah, many communities across Sri Lanka are still facing disruption and uncertainty.
The cyclone also exposed existing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities that m...
Britain does not feel like a nation at ease – and hasn’t done for a very long while. By more than two-to-one, Britons last year judged the country to be on the “wrong track” rather than heading in ...
UNODC is supporting LDC leadership in the fight against corruption
Corruption hits Least Developed Countries (LDCs) the hardest, draining already limited public resources, worsening inequa...