This collection of think pieces was compiled by the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN?OHRLLS).
Publications
02 August 2025
The 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face a unique set of vulnerabilities to climate change due to their geographic circumstances, structural economic challenges, and limited mitigation and adaptation capacities.
02 August 2025
This report reviews developmental trends in Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), evaluating progress in the priority areas of the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) and estimating the economic cost of landlockedness.
02 August 2025
Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face structural challenges with transport and trade processes that contribute to high logistical costs on trade. This report develops a dataset on unit logistics costs measured in $/ton, disaggregated by origin, destination, commodity, and mode of transport, as the basis of a comparative analysis of LLDC logistics costs relative to other economies.
16 July 2025
SDG7 POLICY BRIEFS IN SUPPORT OF THE UN HLPF 2025
07 May 2025
This diagnostic study was prepared as part of the project titled “Strengthening the capacity of LDCs to formulate policies on trade diversification for resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and implementation of the Doha Programme of Action through South-South cooperation and multi-stakeholder partnerships”.
30 April 2025
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are among the world's smallest and most isolated countries, facing unique social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities and constraints. Their small size and undiversified economic structures, often concentrated on tourism and commodity exports, exposes them to external economic shocks and the effects of climate change.
05 March 2025
31 December 2024
UN-OHRLLS planned the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Office’s support to the network of the National Focal Points of the least developed countries in the proposed programme budget for 2024 .
12 August 2024
The Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 2022-2031 (DPOA) adopted in March 2022, has placed high priority on addressing climate change and building resilience by including this among its six priority areas.