Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Economic development projects -- Economic history -- Economic policy -- Non-governmental organizations -- Poverty -- Government policy -- International cooperation -- Confronting challenges of extreme poverty in least developed countries : International economic cooperation for development, economic and social conditions of least developed countries, least developed countries and international economic cooperation, production and trade- led growth for poverty eradication, millennium development goal progress and prospects in sub Saharan Africa, assistance to least developed countries, reaching milestones in fight against poverty, human development for poverty reduction, development initiatives for the least developed countries, trade, aid and investment trends in least developed countries, trade, aid and investment trends in least developed countries -- Mobilizing domestic resources : Creating jobs for poor, external and internal constraints on domestic resources, enhancing productive capacity initiatives in least developed countries, supporting small enterprise- microfinance and microcredit, turning least developed countries assets into useable capital -- Mobilizing external resources : Least developed countries and official development assistance, attracting external resources in least developed countries, structure of aid, trade and capital flows to least developed countries, improving the effectiveness of ODA, international support at work- experience of Timor Leste, enhancing the development impact of migrant remittances, teaming up to mobilize resources for development- look at public private partnerships and UN, United Nations public-private alliance for rural development, regional dimensions of resource mobilization, promoting a regional framework for resources mobilization, attracting foreign direct investment in least developed countries -- Trade preferences for investment and export : Pro development trading regime, integrated framework for trade and poverty reduction, role of trade preferences in promoting investment, constraints on taking advantages of trade preferences -- Creating an enabling environment : Impact of good governance, partnership for good governance and public finance management- experience of Benin and European Union, unleashing entrepreneurship - role of partnerships in mobilizing resources for least developed countries, globalization and least developed countries- need for a fair and inclusive process, poverty trap and women, gender equality, HIV/AIDS and poverty reduction, investing in urban water, snatiation and sustainable human settlement, supporting development through information technology infrastructure, e-government- providing secure information, communication, technology online public sector services, sports as an innovative tool for development -- Enabling environment and resource mobilization for least developed countries emerging from conflict : Key challenges for least developed countries emerging from conflict, innovative responses for post conflict situations, UN coordinated support for least developed countries emerging from conflict, work of UN agencies in least developed countries emerging from conflict- example of world food program - WFP, contribution of DDR programs to stability and development in Africa, policy recommendations for DDR programs -- NGO contributions : NGO/civil society forum, survey report- NGO/civil society and poverty eradication in least developed countries