Why are productive capacities important for the development process in vulnerable economies?

Ahead of LDC 5, the LDC Future Forum brings together the academic community, policymakers and practitioners to gather new thinking on the challenges and possibilities for LDCs in the coming decade. 

CDP member Mariana Mazzucato gave the keynote address at the opening of the General Assembly’s Second Committee. The way we “do capitalism”, she said, has to be much more goal-oriented and the SDGs need to be put at the center of policy.

The October Monthly Briefing takes a closer look at the results of the most recent bank lending survey by the European Central Bank (ECB), which provides some insights into the shape of economic activity in the euro area.

Join us for the Sustainable Development Outlook Webinar on Monday, 27 September 2021 10:00 am.

In charting out the way forward, Sustainable Development Outlook 2021 focuses on policy efforts that are cross-cutting in nature and have positive effects on multiple SDGs.

Unconventional monetary policy measures have played a crucial part in central banks’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Large-scale quantitative easing has led to an unprecedented expansion of developed country central bank balanced sheets.

The CDP session on “Supporting sustainable graduation: making graduation irreversible and a steppingstone to achieve the SDGs” will take place on 31 August (11:15 - 13:15 Geneva time)

The force of the US expansion is reverberating across the world through trade and financial channels. As the recovery picks up speed, concerns over rising inflation and interest rates in the US are increasing.