8 November 2024 - There are 32 countries classified as Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs): 16 are in Africa, five in Asia, eight in the Commonwealth of Independent States and South-Eastern Europe ...
Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) lack territorial access to the sea, leaving them dependent on transit neighbors for a route to world markets. This geographic disadvantage drives up transport ...
IN ONE OF his final acts of global engagement, Pope Francis convened a Jubilee Commission of experts—including ourselves and other leading experts in debt and development—at the Vatican to address a ...
The world agreed to a new climate deal at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, with wealthy countries pledging to provide $300 billion annually by 2035 to poorer countries to help them cope with the ...
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...
In recent decades, seafood products have been widely recognized as significant traded items in the global value chains (GVCs) of the agri-food sector. Seafood exports constitute approximately 11% of ...
The circular economy offers a fresh approach to how we produce and consume, focusing on reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering. It moves us away from the traditional “make, use, discard” model, ...
Key actors are beginning to ask what the system of sovereign debt as a whole needs to provide. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Some developing country governments spend years making ...