This is the first time the UN agency has upgraded a member state’s development status since its establishment in 1964 Lee Tae-ho, South Korea’s senior envoy to the UN office in Geneva, speaks during a ...

Last July, the UN Conference on Trade and Development recategorized South Korea as a developed country — the first time it has upgraded a country’s development status since the body’s establishment in ...

In this article, get to know the top 10 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) according to the United Nations. The official list for 2025 is based on the 2024 review and includes 45 countries. However, ...

The news that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development recently upgraded South Korea from a “developing country” to a “developed country” elated the Korean people greatly. Although the ...

Environmental challenges are a global concern, yet they manifest differently in developed and underdeveloped countries due to variations in economic development, industrialisation, weather, culture, ...

Artificial intelligence and the use of frontier technologies are already transforming trade and boosting prosperity, particularly for developed, and some developing countries. This ranges from digital ...

First week of COP30 sees sharp divergences over the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP). Developing countries push for a new implementation mechanism with predictable finance. Developed countries ...

World leaders will gather New York later this month for the United Nations General Assembly where they will reflect on the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs as they are commonly known. They will ...

The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the revised Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) regulation that grants EU trade preferences to ...