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Least developed countries—Newly defined

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Intereconomics

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The United Nations Committee for Development Planning (CDP) in its annual report 1991 has attempted to redefine and update the list of countries classified as least developed in order to give guidance to donor agencies and countries about an equitable allocation of foreign assistance. We have asked Professor Udo E. Simonis, a member of the CDP, to summarize the main findings and recommendations of that report.

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  1. See Official Records of the ECOSOC, Supplement No. 7, 1971, E/4990, Chapter 2.

  2. See Official Records of the ECOSOC, Supplement No. 5, 1973, E/5293, p. 31.

  3. See Report of the Working Group of the Committee for Development Planning on the Identification of the least developed among the developing countries, November 14, 1980, pp. 6–7; and Official Records of the ECOSOC, Supplement No. 7, 1981, E/1981/27, p. 27.

  4. See Report of the Working Group of the CDP 1980, pp. 6–7.

  5. See Report of the Committee for Development Planning, Official Records of the ECOSOC, 1990, E/1990/27, p. 46.

  6. This approach has its origin in studies by M. D. Morris. See M. D. Morris: A Physical Quality of Life Index, in: Urban Ecology, 1978, No. 3, pp. 225–240; M.D. Morris et al.: Measuring the Condition of the World's Poor: The Physical Quality of Life Index, Oxford 1979.

  7. An overview on the complex of indicator research, including a comprehensive bibliography, is to be found in: U. E. Simonis: Alternative Wirtschaftsrechnungen, in: Möglichkeiten einer realitätsgerechteren Wohlstandsberechnung, Dokumentation, Forum der SPD-Fraktion im Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtag, 10 January 1990, Kiel 1990, pp. 10–34.

  8. Cf. U. E. Simonis: A Development Strategy for the 1990s, in: INTERECONOMICS, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1990, pp. 111–121.

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Simonis, U.E. Least developed countries—Newly defined. Intereconomics 26, 230–235 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928995

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