1. Emerging Challenges for LDCs Presentation at the Brainstorming Meeting on the Substantive Preparation for UNLDC IV Towards a New Partnership for LDCs New York, 14-16 July 2010 Charles Gore Special Coordinator for Cross-sectoral Issues UNCTAD

3. Complex Interdependence

4. Sources LDC Report 2000: The Challenge of Financing Development – Aid, Private Capital Flows and External Debt LDC Report 2002: Escaping the Poverty Trap LDC Report 2004: Linking International Trade with Poverty Reduction LDC Report 2006: Developing Productive Capacities LDC Report 2007: Knowledge, Technological Learning and Innovation LDC Report 2008: Growth, Poverty and the Terms of Development Partnership LDC Report 2009: The State and Development Governance LDC Report 2010: Elements of a New International Development Architecture for LDCs – the Role of International Support Mechanisms (forthcoming November 2010, working title) These Reports are a coherent set of policy analysis and research on LDCs providing a basis for policy dialogue.

5. Thank you For more information on UNCTADs LDC Reports, see www.unctad.org/ldcr