Background
UNCTAD’s 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 2022 bears the working subtitle, “The path towards a green structural transformation of the LDCs”.
Objective
The Peer Review of the forthcoming The Least Developed Countries Report 2022 brought together invited economic and trade analysts, 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 included invited experts from the following institutions:
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
- Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda
- European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London (UCL)
- Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- REPOA: Policy Research for Development, Tanzania
- RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE)
- South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), China
The Least Developed Countries Report 2022 will be launched globally in November 2022.
