Telling the trade stories of least developed countries

How can LDCs be supported to improve their trade performance and sustainably raise their share of trade in the global economy?

Tourism, apparel and sustainable development strategies are covered in new series of policy briefs from the Enhanced Integrated Framework

Least developed countries (LDCs) receive only 6% of the private finance mobilized globally through blended finance, and even then funds are concentrated in a handful of LDCs while ‘last mile’ countries, sectors and businesses miss out.

Multinationals and governments need to recognize the trade world’s interconnectedness, and its impact

Photo: An apparel worker at a garment factory that reopened amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, COVID-19 is impacting the female labour force more

In 2017, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce secured US$50 million from the World Bank to address trade facilitation and export diversification issues.

Recently launched ecommerce training program and portal will help hundreds of women entrepreneurs in South Asian LDCs become part of regional and global supply chains.

How will graduation impact countries in South Asia and the trade support they benefit from? How can they prepare?

COVID-19 is highlighting the need for paperless trade in developing countries; a recent assessment offers recommendations for how to start

A roundup of recent news on the global pandemic, covering issues facing some of the world’s poorest countries – and what they are doing

Originally published in OECD-Development Matters on 5 February 2020

For many, graduation from least developed country status is not the end of the story.

The EIF’s Daria Shatskova talks development in the world’s poorest countries with UNDESA’s Daniel Gay