thus technology transfer is essential to the achievement of sdg around half of ldcs imports of powergenerating machinery and per cent of electrical enduse machinery and appliances are from odcs highlighting the growing importance of southsouth trade as a vehicle for energyrelated technology transfer from this perspective technologytransfer measures in favour of ldcs have a rather inadequate track record reflecting vague and nonbinding formulation lack of adequate funding fragmentation and limited political will unctad b