= (UNCTAD)

A United Nations (UN) organization established in 1964. It is intended to represent the less developed country (LDCs), and acts as a pressure group for increased aid and an international regime for trade and investment more favourable to LDCs. Proposals for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) came from UNCTAD.

• leader
• leading indicator
• leads and lags
• leakages from the circular flow of incomes
• learning by doing
• lease
• leasehold
• leasing
• least-developed countries
• least squares
• least-squares regression
• legal tender
• leisure
• lemon
• lender of last resort
• lending, property
• lending rate, minimum
• Leontief paradox
• Lerner
• less developed country
• leverage
• leveraged buy-out
• levy, capital
• levy, import
• liabilities