Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive
Director, SAWTEE, presented on non-tariff measures facing select least
developed (LDCs) countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of LDC
graduation at the First Asia-Pacific Biennial Review of the Doha Programme of
Action for Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2022–2031, organized by
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
and the Royal Government of Cambodia in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia on 4-5 December
2024. Policymakers and experts from the region gathered at the review meeting.