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 UNDP launches report to improve lives

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday launched the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2015 Report which recommends actions to improve people’s lives.

LDCs are designated by the United Nations (UN) and reviewed every three years by the organisation’s Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a group of independent experts reporting to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc).poverty

The committee uses a country’s per capita income, human assets and its economic vulnerability in classifying member States for respective brackets.

Africa still dominates the 48-member group with 34 countries, followed by Asia which has nine while the remaining five are shared by the other continents.

“The committee recommended the graduation of Equatorial Guinea which was accepted by the council in July 2009, and endorsed by the UN General Assembly, through a resolution adopted in December 2013,” says the report in part.

Meanwhile, economic adviser at UNDP, Alka Bhatia, says the report presents Malawi with the best opportunity to assess its social-economic strides in relation to what others are doing. n

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