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12 September 2019

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12 September 2019

BACKGROUND

This was the first mission of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on LDC Graduation (IATF) and was led by OHRLLS and DESA in close cooperation with the UN Resident Coordinator and the Country Team in S?o Tom¨¦ e Pr¨ªncipe. The WTO, ITC, EIF and Technology Bank participated in the mission.

12 September 2019

SAO TOME,?12 September 2019?¨C?S?o Tom¨¦ and Pr¨ªncipe, one of the world¡¯s forty-seven Least Developed Countries (LDCs), will graduate from the category in December 2024. After exceeding the Human Assets Index (HAI) and per capita income thresholds, S?o Tom¨¦ and Pr¨ªncipe met the criteria for graduation in 2015.

03 July 2019

GENEVA, 3 July 2019 ¨C The Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 took place from 3 to 5 July at the WTO under the theme ¡°Supporting Economic Diversification and Empowerment for Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Aid for Trade¡±. Session 61 focused on LDC graduation and was broadcast live. To view, click .?

31 May 2019

BEIJING, 31 May 2019 ¨C Without urgent and enhanced action, the world¡¯s forty-seven least developed countries will not achieve global sustainable energy targets by 2030. This was the backdrop to discussions which took place over the last two days at a United Nations conference on scaling-up energy access and finance in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Beijing.

26 December 2018

At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), world leaders pledged to: ¡°to adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for LDCs [and] offer financial and technical support for (¡­) access to information on investment facilities and risk insurance and guarantees such as through MIGA, as requested by the LDCs.¡± This study examines

11 December 2018

The analysis in this paper shows that despite the importance of STI, African LDCs are lagging far behind other countries in various STI indicators, including R&D, human resource capacity, patents and innovation.