LDCs and global economic governance

This paper aims at understanding the mechanisms by which LDCs tend to be excluded from global governance or at best play a marginal role. It shows that this situation is all the more paradoxical insofar as collective decision-making has a significant influence on their economies, on the one hand, through its effects on the global economy, on which LDCs depend, and on the other, as a result of the fact that a number of international decisions concern LDCs directly. Finally the paper offers some suggestions for reducing LDCs marginalisation.Revised version February 2012