When trade preferences weaken, development pays the price
Without clear and predictable rules, a key development tool risks becoming a source of instability.
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- UN recognition of LDCs
- List of LDCs
- Map of the LDCs
- LDCs: Graduation support package
- Country profiles of LDCs
- Productive capacities
Areas of work
- The Enhanced Integrated Framework
- eTrade Readiness Assessments
- Trade and poverty reduction
- Rules of origin for least developed countries
- Geographical indications for least developed countries
- Productive Capacities Index
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- Structural economic progress towards and beyond graduation from LDC status
- Helping least developed countries achieve structural economic progress toward and beyond graduation
- Coherent strategies for productive capacity development in African LDCs
- A New Trade Policy and Strategy for ASEAN LDCs
- Upgrade and diversify their fish exports in selected LDCs
Meetings
11 May 2026
13th Trade Policy Dialogue: Trade Preferences Outlook 2025: Navigating in times of uncertainty
Geneva, Switzerland
19 – 20 March 2026
National capacity building training on statistical, methodological and computational aspects of the Productive Capacities Index (PCI)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
17 – 18 March 2026
High-Level national policy-level workshop on fostering productive capacities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for industrialisation, economic diversification, and inclusive growth
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
16 March 2026
Leveraging the multilateral trading system for Least Developed Countries’ development
Geneva
16 – 17 March 2026
Advanced executive training on building expertise in negotiation, implementation and compliance
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
10 February 2026
Launch of the Least Developed Countries Report 2025
Documents
15 Apr 2026
Evidence and potentialities of regional value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa using cumulation
English10 Feb 2026
The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation?
English18 Nov 2025
Vers un Tchad prospère et équitable: Les politiques économiques et sociales de réduction de la pauvreté et des inégalités
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