Developed countries

Projects exclusively in support of LDCs include LDC country specific projects, LDC Trust Fund projects, and the Integrated Framework.

We welcome the commitments made by most of the developed countries to the 0.7 per cent ODA target.

Deflation in many advanced economies.

A study by UNCTAD revealed that landlocked developing countries spent twice as much on transport costs as an average developing country, and three times as much as an average developed country.

We also applaud those developed country partners that have achieved the official development assistance donor targets and those that continue to seek innovative means to supplement development financing shortfalls.

In this respect, the least developed countries have called for the provision of bound duty free and quota free treatment by developed countries to all products of the least developed countries, and by developing countries in a position to do so.

We sent it over to Uganda.

States of Risk

Group of the Least Developed Countries

The Group had submitted four recommendations for adoption that would help LDCs achieve the MDGs the introduction of full market access for all products from LDCs the creation of special micro credit funds to help diversify production in LDCs the cancellation of LDCs' debts to enable greater State investment in infrastructure and the removal of agricultural subsidies in developed countries.

The representative from Djibouti, speaking on behalf of the LDCs, expressed the group's appreciation of the overall work of the Special Programme for LDCs and the activities of other UNCTAD programmes that had benefited LDCs.

21. Expresses its appreciation to the developed countries that have agreed to and have reached the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for overall official development assistance, and calls upon the developed countries that have not yet done so to strengthen their efforts to achieve the agreed target as soon as possible and, where agreed, within that target, to earmark 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their gross national product for the least developed countries

Fifty least developed countries (LDCs) are seemingly caught in a trap of underdevelopment, poverty and structural weaknesses.

The LDCs welcomed the recent market access initiatives taken by developed countries in their favour.

After aggressive treatment, the survival rate of premature infants of 29 weeks and more gestation is 98 in China, which has reached the level of developed countries.

UNCTAD briefing on the least developed countries

But it's not just the developed nations.

The representative of Costa Rica made a statement.

Section 6 Least Developed Countries Coordination Unit

Well, coming out of the research labs just now, for our generation, is the possibility to do that.

(c) call for the establishment of an effective monitoring mechanism to ensure that the internationally agreed targets for ODA allocation by the developed countries of 0.7 percent of GNP to the developing countries and 0.15 percent to 0.20 percent of GNP to the least developed countries are met

For their accession to the organization, developing countries must comply with a wider array of conditions than those previously complied with by developed countries themselves.

The region got the worst of both worlds because of the agricultural policies of developed countries that were underpinned by enormous subsidies.

Developed countries were not making progress in fulfilling their commitments to provide SDT to developing countries, especially LDCs.

The assaults of nature do not distinguish between the rich and the poor or the developed or less developed, in dealing devastating blows to human beings and infrastructure.

(b) urge developed countries that have not yet done so to raise ODA flows to meet the internationally agreed targets for ODA of 0.7 percent of GNP to developing countries and 0.15 per cent to 0.20 per cent of GNP to least developed countries

That Stalling Feeling

a Excluding the least developed countries.

a Excluding the least developed countries.

However, underdevelopment is a different story.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries, expressed satisfaction with the work of the Commissions and welcomed the attention given to the concerns of LDCs.

Group of the Least Developed Countries (smooth transition for graduation from least developed country status and sustained growth Cape Verde Environment Plan of Action)

Therefore, I welcome every step taken by developed countries either on their own or together with some developing countries to improve the status of the underdeveloped and to raise funds for development financing.

Group of the Least Developed Countries (consideration of a draft resolution on the least developed countries and other matters)

It is also important for developed countries to fulfil their commitments, by providing support and the necessary investments to help build capacities in the least developed countries.

The crimes before the ICTR were committed in Rwanda.

Significant differences persist between developed and developing countries.

With a view to helping LDCs attain the MDGs, in particular with regard to poverty reduction and development, one delegation suggested that (i) markets be opened to all products from LDCs, (ii) funds for micro credit and micro products be set up to facilitate economic diversification, (iii) all debts of LDCs be cancelled, and (iv) agricultural subsidies in developed countries be ended.

According to an expert,33 the existing developed markets in finance, labour and capital in the developed economies are more the outcome than the cause of economic development.

Its official development assistance would attain 0.46 per cent of gross national income in 2006 and was expected to reach 0.50 per cent in 2007 and 0.70 per cent by 2012.

Our company's technology has already reached the level of a developed country in the 1990s.

We have agreed to continue our discussions on ways to reach accord with the developed nations.

I give the floor to the representative of Costa Rica.

E. Trust fund for least developed countries