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Least-Developed Countries, a Status That Many Nations Can’t Leave Behind

Opinion by Bill Buchanan
• January 1, 2018

Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized least-developed countries as those deemed highly disadvantaged in their development strides because of structural, historical and geographical reasons. The aim has been, and still is, to support these countries to graduate to higher …

Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, OPINIONS, Poverty

Unido: What Does Its Future Hold?

Stephen Browne
• August 7, 2013

At the end of 2012, Britain withdrew its membership from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or Unido, the most recent of several major donor countries (including the United States and Canada) to do so. Although it has had strong …

Categories: Development, UN Agencies

An American in Europe: The UN, Who Cares?

Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
• February 12, 2013

BRUSSELS — George Gershwin certainly would not have been inspired to write a symphonic tone poem about an American academic on sabbatical attempting to interpret European reactions to the United Nations. Ten years ago, Robert Kagan wrote that “Americans are …