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Webinar on harnessing intellectual property rights for innovation, development and economic transformation in LDCs (UNCTAD, Commonwealth Secretariat)

29 January 2024. This webinar will officially launch a joint report by the Commonwealth Secretariat and UNCTAD that explores how LDCs can use intellectual property protection strategically to stimulate innovation and development, and craft regimes and systems for intellectual property rights that help to build productive capacities, enable technological upgrading, boost trade and investment and drive economic transformation.

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Enabling a “Green Seize” of New Trade Opportunities for LDCs: Learning from the Covid-19 response to address the climate emergency (Session host: WTO)

3 December 2023. WTO events at COP28.

 

Event held during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) by EIF and ODI, hosted at the Trade House (International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat). 

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UNCTAD online course: Trade and gender linkages with a focus on least developed countries

Trade and trade policy can play a key role in fostering a more sustainable and resilient recovery from the pandemic. They also remain a powerful driving force in supporting the global efforts towards the realization of broader women’s economic empowerment and gender equality goals. For this to happen, an in-depth understanding of the gender ramifications of trade policy is necessary to make trade a tool for achieving more inclusive and gender-equal economies after the pandemic.

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A Brief History of the LDCs: podcast with CDP member Taffere Tesfachew, by UNCDF Capital Musings

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CDP Member Taffere Tesfachew discusses the history of the LDC category, support by the UN system to the category, and the prospects and challenges for LDCs, including issues related to graduation, in the context of the crisis induced by COVID-19 and climate change: #32 A Brief History of the LDCs - Capital Musings (uncdf.org)

LDC5 Prepcom side-event: Productive Capacities for the New Decade

Why is productive capacity central to the sustainable development of least developed countries (LDCs)? How can LDCs, with support from development partners, expand their productive capacity through domestic policies including efforts to build back better from COVID-19? How can the Fifth United Nations Conference on the LDCs (LDC5) contribute to these efforts through the new Programme of Action?

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