This is true of mountainous countries like Afghanistan. Areas likely to be hit by floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or by drought tend to remain less developed. The map below ...

As the world grapples with how to tackle climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitments ...

In the late 1960s, the United Nations began to pay special attention to the least developed countries, recognizing those countries as the most vulnerable among the international community.

Compared to a developing population structure, more people are living to older age categories. The population pyramid shows a low birth rate and high life expectancy. This pyramid shows an ageing ...

Abstract: This paper studies the factors associated with the emergence of systemic banking crises in a large sample of developed and developing countries in 1980-94 using a multivariate logit ...

The target calls on States to “significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in Least Developed ...

The Kingdom of Sweden, flanked by Norway to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east, expands across much of the Scandinavian Peninsula and is one of the largest countries in the European Union by ...

About 75 developing and transition economies, including virtually all of the least developed countries, fit this description. In contrast to the successful integrators, they depend disproportionately ...