LDCs

2012 Monitoring Reports

10 May 2012

Monitoring reports for Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Maldives, Samoa

Strengthening smooth transition from the least developed country category

16 February 2012

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.

Conflict and the identification of the Least Developed Countries: theoretical and statistical considerations

10 February 2012

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

The concept of structural economic vulnerability and its relevance for the identification of the least developed countries and other purposes: nature, measurement and evolution

15 September 2011

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