UNCTAD’s The Least Developed Countries Report provides a comprehensive and authoritative source of socio-economic analysis and data on the world’s most impoverished countries.
The Report is intended for a broad readership of governments, policymakers, researchers, and all those involved with LDCs’ development policies.
The Least Developed Countries Report 2024 bears the working subtitle, “Leveraging carbon markets for the development of the least developed countries”.
Objective
The Peer Review of The Least Developed Countries Report 2024 brought together invited analysts in the fields of development, climate change, financing for development, climate finance, trade, research scholars, policymakers, and subject matter experts to review and discuss a draft of the forthcoming Report.
The objective of the Peer Review was to critically assess the methodologies followed in the Report, and deepen the analysis contained therein, in light of recent scholarship. The Peer Review was undertaken as part of a comprehensive effort to ensure the highest quality and analytical rigour of the final Report.
Participants in the Peer Review included the following external experts:
- Mr. Jean-Paul Adam, Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, United Nations
- Ms. Liliana Andonova, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Mr. Perumal Arumugam, UN Climate Change
- Mr. Martial Bernoux, Food and Agriculture Organization
- Mr. El Hadji Mbaye Diagne, Afrique-Energie-Environnement
- Mr. Ekkehard Ernst, International Labour Organization
- Mr. Phillip Eyre, UN Climate Change
- Ms. Jing He, SUIBE University
- Mr. Simon Hess, World Trade Organization
- Mr. Mizanur Khan, International Center for Climate Change and Development
- Mr. Xiankun Lu, Friends of Multilateralism Group
- Ms. Isa Mulder, Carbon Market Watch
- Ms. Madeleine Nyiratuza, United Nations Development Programme
- Mr. Brian Oronoz, United Nations Environment Programme
- Ms. Gelila Terrefe, United Nations Development Programme
- Mr. Francis D. Yamba, Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering Zambia
The Least Developed Countries Report 2024 will be launched globally in October 2024.
