In the late 1960s, the United Nations began to pay special attention to the least developed countries, recognizing those countries as the most vulnerable among the international community.

Many of these countries, like Burkina Faso for example, are prone to drought and famine. Some of the poorest least developed countries ... can prevent a country from developing.

About 75 developing and transition economies, including virtually all of the least developed countries, fit this description. In contrast to the successful integrators, they depend disproportionately ...

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 need for monetary policies that account for the structural challenges of developing and emerging economies took center stage at the launch of Monetary Economics in Developing and Emerging ...

Many developing countries are burdened with debt repayments. They may suffer from barriers to trade, such as tariffs and quotas imposed by developed countries. China is an Newly Industrialised ...