Suchergebnisse

About LDC IV Monitor -- Foreword by Under-Secretary-General Cyan C Acharya, Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, UNOHRLLS -- Foreword by Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC -- Preface from the Chair -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Box -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Structural economic transformation and export diversification in the least developed countries / Jodie Keane, Gazwan Aldafai and Mehmet Arda. Introduction ; Reaching the IPoA growth targets ; Targeting trade as a driver of structural economic transformation ; Structural economic transformation-related targets ; Concluding remarks ; Notes ; References -- Prospects of graduation for least developed countries: what structural change? / Alassane Drabo and Patrick Guillaumont. Introduction ; Graduation constrained by the rules applied ; No more than one fifth of LDCs likely to reach the one half IPoA goal ; Better long-term prospects ; How fast has the change been in the structural features of graduating LDCs? ; Making graduation rules more consistent with structural transformation ; Concluding remarks ; Notes ; References -- Implication of the 2030 agenda for the Istanbul Programme of Action / Mustafizur Rahman, Towfiqul Islam Khan and Md. Zafar Sadique. Introduction ; Midterm review of IPoA implementation and benchmarking the 2030 Agenda for LDCs ; Leveraging ODA for SDGs and IPoA ; Challenges in attaining the SDGs in LDCs ; Concluding remarks ; Notes ; References ; Annex 3.1: Data availability situation concerning selected indicators in LDCs -- Obstacles to achieving the sustainable development goals: emerging global challenges and the performance of the least developed countries / Carl Dahlman and Sam Mealy. Introduction ; Challenges to meeting the SDGs ; Implications for the international community and development strategy ; Notes ; References -- About the authors