Section outline

  • 18 March 2011
    Palais des Nations, room XXV

    Governance, development and LDCs

    Governance, both national and global, is critical for accelerating and sustaining development and achieving substantial poverty reduction in the least developed countries (LDCs). This course will focus on the challenge of improving governance at both levels. It will discuss (a) the nature of good development governance within the LDCs and pathways for building developmental State capabilities, and (b) the nature of a new international development architecture for LDCs which can enable rather than constrain development and poverty reduction in the LDCs. The course will draw on the analysis contained in UNCTAD LDC Reports 2008, 2009 and 2010. As the topic has implications for policymaking by both LDC governments and donor countries, the course is designed for delegates of LDCs and their development partners, but it should also be of interest to other developing countries

    Delivered by: Unit on Economic Cooperation and Integration among Developing Countries