The 48 LDCs are home to over 800 million people, many of whom live in utter poverty.
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LDCs about how they are creating tangible opportunities for businesses across a spectrum of industries, sectors and issues.
LDCs, among others, have long advocated for stronger attention to be given to the development of their productive sector.
Success stories found in the LDCs must be examined for replication, wherever possible.
The Conference should agree to new concessions in favour of LDCs, it said.
The participants suggested that LDCs should continue to improve their macroeconomic conditions and also further intensify their trade diversification efforts.
What the LDCs, Aosis and the EU are seeking is a firm timetable - a mandate - leading to a new treaty.
Support for LDCs should also include implementation of their fast-track accession to the World Trade Organization and their participation in multilateral trade negotiations.
The report also outlines the need for LDCs to play a major role in their own development, rather than relying on outside support.
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Equitably harnessed and properly managed, all these resources can yield high-returns on investments for the benefit of the LDCs and the global economy.
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Send a strong political message to the rest of the world that investing in and partnering with LDCs is the smart thing to do.
Formulate project proposals and mobilise extra-budgetary resources to support operational projects for the benefit of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), with emphasis on multidisciplinary and science policy projects.
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We hope they will go away from Istanbul with the message that doing business in the LDCs is not charity but a wise and profitable endeavour.
The United Nations is committed to helping LDCs overcome the challenges they face, and we are delighted to work with parliamentarians and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to do so.
All of them, with the exception of Nauru, were classified as Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and all of them faced significant challenges in raising the effectiveness of their education workforce.
There are a heck of a lot of them - the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) and the Least Developed Countries bloc (LDCs) have more than 70 members combined.
They called for priority examination of the reasons for the failure of past efforts by both the LDCs and their development partners to address the critical development problems facing poor countries.
Experts from English-speaking African LDCs meeting at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last March, said the Programme of Action had failed to address the development problems of LDCs and to deliver the desired results.
That is too late for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), who both say talks must begin in January and conclude at the end of next year.
At that Conference, the international community unanimously adopted the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries, containing guidelines for domestic action by the LDCs, which were to be complemented by international support measures.
With the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard has invited ministers from AOSIS, LDCs and a number of Latin American countries to discuss potential 'next steps', and how the existing cooperation can be strengthened.
The UNCTAD says that despite major policy reforms initiated by many of these countries, and supportive measures taken by a number of donors in the areas of aid, debt relief and trade, the economic situation of the LDCs as a whole worsened during the 1980s.
At the country level, the meeting noted that the development of African LDCs had continued to be constrained by shortcomings in physical infrastructure and human resources development, low levels of domestic resource mobilization, shortcomings in macroeconomic policy design and management, and severe socio-economic consequences of local or regional conflicts.
The draft programme and budget being considered by the General Conference gives priority to sustainable development, the development of a culture of peace and non-violence with a special emphasis on gender equality, Africa, youth, Education for All (EFA), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and the most vulnerable segments of society.
During this session, expected to be presided over by Ms Katalin Bogyay (Hungary), the General Conference will decide on the proposed programme and budget for the 2012-2013 biennium, which gives priority to sustainable development, culture of peace and non-violence, with a special emphasis on gender equality, Africa, youth, Education for All (EFA), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and the most vulnerable segments of society.
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