in order to sustain the growth momentum in the postcrisis world these countries need to find new sources of demand to deepen their dynamism this should happen mainly through rebalancing their economies in favour of greater domestic and regional consumption with likely adjustments coming that will reduce global macroeconomic imbalances the import demand from the developed countries especially from the united states is not likely to play the buoyant role that it played in the past decade the ldcs will therefore have to identify new drivers of growth to compensate for the anticipated reduction in traditional export markets in view of the economic crisis this requires rebalancing the ldcs economies to make them more resilient and more dependent on domestic demand rather than exports obviously this would require these countries to spend more on basic social services social protection and infrastructure along with measures for boosting poor peoples incomes