Least Developed Countries Report: 1997

Least Developed Countries Report: 1997

Socio-economic analysis and data on the world s 48 most impoverished nations. This year, it raises the following important questions:

  • Why, at a time of record resource flows to developing countries, is the LDC s share of external finance falling?
  • Why, twenty years after the Green Revolution, have many LDCs failed to improve their agricultural productivity?
  • Why, at a time of unparalleled prosperity, are the populations of nearly half the LDCs getting less to eat than ten years ago?
  • What can the international community do to help those LDCs that have experienced serious civil strife for over a decade, and whose economies are in regress?

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