World Trade Organization (WTO) Report | 2021 Annual Report of the Enhanced Integrated Framework

Excerpt:  “The report highlights how the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) partnership has catalyzed support for least-developed countries (LDCs), helping them to improve their trading capacity and to generate over USD 200 million in new exports in 2021. ‘LDCs took a lead role in improving their economic situation in 2021, working closely with the EIF partnership to build their institutional and productive capacities,’ said EIF’s Executive Director, Ratnakar Adhikari. ‘As a result, the EIF beneficiary countries were able to strengthen both their standing in international trade and their resilience to national and global shocks. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges — including economic and climate-related issues — in 2021, LDC exports increased by an estimated 22 percent, according to WTO estimates of May 2022.'”