2018
10 July 2018
The Economic Analysis and Policy Division of UN DESA collaborated with the United Nations Development Programme, UN Regional Commissions, international organizations, as well as universities and research institutions, to develop modelling methodologies ...
5 July 2018
CDP Background Paper No. 45 By Ann Harrison We examine globalization’s effects on those left behind in both industrial and emerging markets. While access to global markets has lifted billions out of poverty in emerging markets, the benefits have not be ...
5 July 2018
With a potential global trade war in the horizon, Global Economic Monitoring Branch Chief Dawn Holland and Economic Affairs Officer Helena Afonso consider the potential impact of two strands of the trade policy debate on the United States labour market in “Trade Policy and the United States Labour Market”.
3 July 2018
The CDP Secretariat participated at the Consultative Meeting on Accelerating Progress Toward Graduation from the LDC Category” organized by UN-OHRLLS from 28 to 29 June, delivering a presentation on the “Progress towards graduation”. More information: ...
1 July 2018
Rising levels of public debt fueling fiscal sustainability concerns in many developing countries Several countries highly vulnerable to a sharp increase in government interest burden in the event of a financial shock High debt service obligations limit the availability of resources to pursue development objectives
27 June 2018
The CDP Secretariat made a presentation on ‘The Needs and Priorities of LDCs in Economic Transformation’ at the 10th Plenary Meeting of the ‘OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue in Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development’ taking p ...
12 June 2018
For some least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh and Nepal, moving onto a path of long-term prosperity requires structural transformation that expands production via manufacturing, services and higher-productivity agriculture. The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP), using a series of case studies, identified some possible lessons from building productive capacity in countries that are about to graduate or have recently graduated from the LDC category.
8 June 2018
This paper provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues involved in the overarching goal of “leaving no one behind” (LNOB). It proposes ways to operationalize LNOB, discusses whether to take a country-focused or person-focused approach, examines various (multidimensional) ways to measure those who are left behind, argues for grounding LNOB on intrinsic and instrumental reasons, suggests ways to identify those at risk of being left behind, and discusses difficult trade-offs with other SDGs for an agenda focused on LNOB.
5 June 2018
One of the pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the pledge to ‘leave no one behind’. This paper argues that we must recognise that many people throughout the world are not just being left behind. They are being pushed even further behind, and their levels of well-being are falling, often in ways from which it is impossible to fully recover.
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