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Congratulations to CDP Vice-Chair Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr! She was awarded the Grawemeyer World Order Award alongside Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph. The trio was recognized for their book "Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights", which offers a ...

The CDP Secretariat co-hosted with OHRLLS a presentation of the book edited by newly appointed CDP member Debapriya Bhattacharya, Bangladesh's Graduation from the LDC group - Pitfalls and Promises. The book addresses various issues related to the gradu ...

Important update - Superseded by the Fifth edition Link to the newest edition: Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category: Inclusion, Graduation and Special Support Measures - Fifth Edition The Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category is ...

The Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category is prepared by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) to provide comprehensive information on the least developed country (LDC) category. The third edition of the Handbook builds upon and updates ...

CDP Policy Review No. 8 By Namsuk Kim The progress made for enabling LDCs to move toward graduation has not been successful enough. Fourteen countries have been able to meet the criteria for graduation during 2011-2020, only half way to meet the target ...

CDP Policy Review No. 7 By Namsuk Kim This paper provides an overview on the interlinkage between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievement and Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation, by examining the relationship between the indicators to be ...

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Marc Fleurbaey co-directed the first report of the International Panel for Social Progress, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century. The panel brings together nearly 300 researchers, under the chairmanship ...

On 26 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) successfully launched the Gradjet LDC graduation website (www.gradjet.org) attended by Government officials from 10 LDCs, international agencies and other interested stakeholde ...

On October 30, the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) briefed the LDC Sub-committee of the WTO on recent developments in the graduation of least developed countries (LDCs). Information was provided on the role of the CDP in regar ...