Natural Disasters, Trade and LDCs

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics provides an overview of how natural disasters can exacerbate the trade and development challenges of LDCs. In the aftermath of Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, the focus is on Mozambique, a coastal LDC, and Malawi, a landlocked LDC surrounded by two other LDCs: Zambia to the west and Mozambique to the east.