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UN: Growth of Least Developed Countries "positive but not equally shared"
11.05.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of yesterday, while speaking ahead of a conference to be held in Turkey’s capital Istanbul on this year May 27 to review the progress made by the LDCs (the least developed countries), Gyan Chandra Acharya, the UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), said these countries’ general economic growth within the past five years was positive but the challenge was not equally shared by all of them, UN Radio reports.
As to Acharya, some of these Least Developed Countries or LDCs have witnessed a 4 % growth rate in 2012 that has since gone up by 5.3%.
It is to be admitted, the category of LDCs was officially established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly in order to attract special international support for the «most vulnerable and disadvantaged members» of the UN family.
The current list includes 48 countries, 34 in Africa,13 in Asia and in the Pacific and 1 in Latin America.
Acharya admits human development, access to internet and telephone networks, the reduction of child and maternal mortality rates are other areas where progress has been made. However, Acharya adds
there are also many challenges.
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