The Least Developed Countries Report 2015

In a bold move, UNCTAD’s The Least Developed Countries Report, subtitled Transforming Rural Economies, presents a road map to address rural poverty, lack of progress in rural transformation and the root causes of migration within and from the least developed countries (LDCs).

The report also invokes the principle that “to will the ends is to will the means” in calling for donors to meet their long-standing commitment to provide 0.7 per cent of their gross national income in development aid. This will allow donors to make allocations in line with the LDC share of global needs to meet the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals, and which would amount to a six-fold increase in aid to LDCs by 2030.