Recovery from COVID-19 : Towards UN LDC5 - Session 2

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On the road to the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UN LDC5) - Tackling vulnerabilities and leveraging scarce resources

Second session: 23 October, 2020

Financing the recovery in LDCs: what role for international co-operation?

In his latest report on the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), which came out at the very outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Secretary-General had already stressed the uneven progress of LDCs, and the need to better support them beyond graduation point. Declining foreign direct investment, persistently low shares in world exports, slow gains in structural transformation and productive capacity, continued dependence on commodities and a worsening of undernourishment in the LDCs were all matters of concern on the eve of the major 2020 global economic crisis. This second panel discussed options for improving the mobilisation of global finance, its alignment with, and its impact on the recovery and sustainable development of LDCs.
Opening remarks by partner institutions

Ángel GURRÍA, Secretary-General, Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD)

Presentation

Jose Antonio OCAMPO, Chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy
Sileshi BEKELE, Minister of Water, Irrigation & Energy, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Isabelle DURANT, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD

Koen DOENS, Director-General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission

Khalifa bin Jassim AL-KUWARI, Director General, Qatar Fund for Development

Sarah SSEWANYANA, Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda, member of Southern Voice

Ratnakar ADHIKARI, Executive Director, Enhanced Integrated Framework, World Trade Organization

Matt REED, CEO Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), UK & Global Director of Institutional Partnerships for the AKF
Moderator:

Debapriya BHATTACHARYA, Chair of LDC IV Monitor, Chair of Southern Voice, Distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Q&A

Possible interventions from other partners
Closing remarks

Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘UTOIKAMANU, UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

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