Foreword

Economic Diversification of Asian Landlocked Developing Countries: Challenges and Prospects, is a contribution by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to the deliberations of the Second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, to be held in Vienna from 3 to 5 November 2014. It offers concrete proposals and ideas to advance the 2013 Vientiane Consensus, adopted as the outcome of the Asia-Pacific final regional review of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development