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 ...

The most well off developing countries are the Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs), like Chile. These would be halfway up the hill, below the poorest of the developed countries, such as Romania.

State of the Least Developed Countries 2021. Building back better in response to COVID-19 ...

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 poorest countries have seen their share of world trade decline substantially, and without lowering their own barriers to trade, they risk further marginalization. About 75 developing and ...