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significantly larger drop than in 2014, and further declined by 6 per cent in 2016, resulting in a considerable decline in their share of world merchandise exports, which stood at 0.94 per cent in 2016, and calls upon the least developed countries and their development partners to take the measures necessary to reverse this trend, with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020;","type":"paragraph","heading_level":null,"paragraph_type":"operative","paragraph_level":1,"prefix":"19.","links":[],"textWithHighlights":"*Expresses* its concern that, in 2015, merchandise exports of the least developed countries contracted by 25 per cent, a significantly larger drop than in 2014, and further declined by 6 per cent in 2016, resulting in a considerable decline in their share of world merchandise exports, which stood at 0.94 per cent in 2016, and calls upon the least developed countries and their development partners to take the measures necessary to reverse 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