Th e United Nations Offi ce of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing
Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) is presenting the State of the Least Developed Countries
2014 as part of its mandated analytical activities on the eight priority areas of the Istanbul Programme of Action
for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020. Th e second of its type, the report is intended to
substantively backstop follow-up in each area.
Th e current report builds on the fi rst edition in 2013, which considered the issues of productive capacity building in
the least developed countries (LDCs) and the post-2015 development agenda. Th at report proposed a conceptual and
operational framework for productive capacity building in the context of the post-2015 agenda, particularly relating
to LDC issues and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Th is year’s report is dedicated to the elimination of
extreme poverty in the LD
