A UN report in 2023 ranked Niger among the world's poorest countries. Its development is hindered by numerous factors, including its landlocked location, desert landscape, low literacy rates ...

Escaping the poverty trap and sustaining economic growth requires finding new avenues where people become increasingly ...

Top 10 poorest countries in the world in 2024 List:Despite abundant global wealth, African countries continue to face extreme poverty. (source: Canva)/indianexpress In 2025, 19 of the world’s 20 ...

Interestingly, all bar one of the countries are also landlocked. Andorra Andorra is the largest country not to have an airport, by both population and land area. The landlocked country is found on ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

Rich in cultural heritage, with the magnificence of Mount Everest and the Himalayas as a backdrop, landlocked Nepal remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. In 2015, ...

I successfully negotiated Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries adopted at the ... particularly the poor, women and children. I served as chair of the 49th Session of ...