UNCTAD Publishes Least Developed Countries Report 2006
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This year's LDC report from UNCTAD emphasises the need for LDCs to focus on developing their productive capacities to achieve sustained growth and reduce poverty. Economic growth in LDCs still remains vulnerable, especially in those countries dependent on commodity prices or weather and climatic conditions; developing productive capacities is therefore seen as a way for LDCs to progress, to become less dependent on aid, to accumulate capital, attract FDI and generate competitiveness...
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Tanzania's University of Dar-es-Salaam (http://www.udsm.ac.tz/) conducted a trade negotiations simulation focusing on "Trade as a tool for development" at the Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre July 17 - 29. 
A second edition of the commodity workshop (Dakar, Senegal, 5-9 June 2006) gathered participants from French-speaking African universities and research institutes. The objective was to present the training package developed by the Vi and the UNCTAD Commodity Branch, and to discuss participants' teaching and research of commodity issues and the ways of enhancing them. The participants left very motivated and with concrete ideas about how they will use the materials and tools from the workshop in their academic work.
The UNCTAD Virtual Institute in collaboration with several UNCTAD programmes, the World Trade Organisation and the International Trade Centre request applications for a five day workshop on tools and methods for trade and trade policy analysis to be held in Geneva, from the 11th - 15th September this year.
With financial support from the government of Finland, the Virtual Institute organized its first fellowships for future assistant lecturers from the University of Dar-es-Salaam (UDES), during a month from the 28th April to the 26th May.
