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The Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes collaborates with more than 80 countries to ensure growth opportunities from trade and investment, to improve development prospects, and to enable their more effective participation in the global economy.

The Division provides timely, targeted research and analysis, as well as innovative policy recommendations regarding development, trade and investment.

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Panel Session on Africa and the Financial CrisisGlobal recession should spur transformation of African economies

09 July 10 - African countries should take steps to transform their economies as they emerge from the global recession so that they can grow in stable fashion and are less vulnerable to future downturns, experts said at the Trade and Development Board´s (TDB) 50th executive session. More >>


2010 Report on Economic Development in AfricaSouth-South cooperation offers new opportunities for transforming African economies

18 June 10 - The 2010 report on Economic Development in Africa recommends that Africa should take steps to ensure that its growing economic interactions with large developing countries, including China, India, and Brazil, result in economic diversification rather than simply the sale of African commodities and raw materials -- the traditional pattern of the continent´s relations with the industrialized North. More >>


Focus for Least Developed Countries should be on transforming their economiesFocus for Least Developed Countries should be on transforming their economies

08 June 10 - The world´s 49 poorest countries should adopt strategies - and be firmly backed with international help - to modernize and broaden the productive abilities of their economies, speakers said as the 49th executive session of the Trade and Development Board considered the dilemmas facing least developed countries (LDCs). More >>


Public SymposiumFood security comes first, public symposium told

11 May 10 - Food supplies and support for agriculture are too important to be left to market forces alone, and governments must play a dominant role, speakers said at UNCTAD´s second public symposium. More >>



Economic Development in Africa Report 2010
Enhancing the Role of Domestic Financial Resources in Africa’s Development: A Policy Handbook
Achieving the millennium development goals through new development partnership: building up sustainable growth and country ownership
Handbook on Duty-Free Quota-Free and Rules of Origin
The Least Developed Countries Report, 2009
The Least Developed Countries Report, 2009 - Overview
UNCTAD’s contribution to the preparatory process of and to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, 2011
UNCTAD-wide activities in implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the decade 2001–2010: eighth progress report
 
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