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On 3 July 2012 Professor Frances Stewart, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's findings on "Promotion of productive capacity and employment" as part of the CDPs report on its 14th session at the High-Level Seg ...

This policy note proposes principles and policy alternatives for a post-2015 development agenda, in the light of consideration of lessons learnt from the MDGs experience and emerging key development challenges.

This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs).

On 4 April 2012 the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Francis Stewart and CDP member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as panelists at a briefing on the “Post 2015 UN Development Framework” convened by the Economic and Social Council (E ...

12 - 16 March 2012 at UN Headquarters in New York, USA

This report suggests actions to be taken by the international development community and the graduating countries to strengthen the process of preparing for graduation from the LDC category.

This paper reviews conflict as one of potential factors that could be incorporated in the identification of LDCs.

The paper discusses the conceptual, methodological and empirical issues related to the CDP's economic vulnerability index (EVI) used to identify LDCs.

On 5 July 2011 Professor Frances Stewart, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's findings on "Quality education for all: meeting human resources needs in developing countries" as part of the CDPs report on its 1 ...