With the 2015 target date for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fast approaching, the international community is taking stock of countries' performances, and discussing a Post-2015 Development Agenda, along with a much more ambitious new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to succeed them.
Global goals such as poverty eradication can only be realized if they are achieved everywhere, and it is in the LDCs that they are the most challenging. Therefore, the performance of the LDCs will be critical to achieving the SDGs.
LDCs have enjoyed unprecedented economic growth since 2000, helped by increasing commodity prices and aid flows. But despite economic growth and substantial progress in human development, most LDCs will not meet the majority of the MDGs. Understanding this "LDC paradox" is crucial to the development of a coherent post-2015 agenda. This report contributes towards that objective.
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