UN Calls for New Industrial Deal to End Poverty
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Sudan’s Economic Recovery and the Challenges of Least Developed Countries
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The Impact of Conflict on Sudan’s Economy
“First, we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the factories,” says Basher Abdullah, advisor to Sudan’s Minister of Industry and Trade. Like many of the world’s poorest countries, Sudan’s attempts to develop its economy have been severely hampered by conflict. Yet,even in the midst of a brutal civil war,the united nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) continues to offer economic development support and a path to recovery.
First,we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the factories.
The fighting seems a world away from the vast King Abdul Aziz Conference Center in the Saudi capital, where government ministers assembled on Saturday for a family photo to mark the occasion of the Eleventh Ministerial Meeting of Least Developed Countries.
Arriving from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, the ministers have one thing in common: thay each represent one of the poorest, most vulnerable nations in the world, officially designated by the UN as least developed countries (LDCs).
The call for Global Solidarity
“We need a decisive change of direction,” declared Gerd Müller,the Director-General of UNIDO,in his opening remarks to the assembled ministers,reminding them that industrialization is “essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (the 17 global goals adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development)