LDCs

Monitoring reports for Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Maldives, Samoa, Vanuatu

The Committee for Development Policy announced its decision to recommend four countries for graduation. Which are they?

As one of the pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the CDP will discuss multiple dimensions of "leaving no one behind" in an open session during the 20th Plenary. Watch live on webtv.un.org on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 or join us in Conference Room 6 at UN Headquarters in New York.

Fourteen countries have successfully graduated from the LDC category, or have made noteworthy progress towards graduation, their lessons are relevant to the international community.

This paper explores the challenges countries face in negotiating trade and investment agreements that could restrict their ability to manage access to medicines and the public health systems more generally.

The subgroup of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) met in New York City from 1 - 2 February 2018 to review the data used for the identification of least developed countries (LDCs) and to conduct country consultations with the countries identifi ...

For identifying concrete policies and strategies that helped LDC in building productive capacities, the CDP reviewed the experiences of fourteen countries in developing productive capacity and the implications for graduation and economic transformation.

Professor Keith Nurse, Rapporteur of the CDP and the CDP Secretariat participated in the EGM on UN Support for Graduation and Smooth Transition for the LDCs on 14 December 2017. The meeting was organized by OHRLLS and brought together representatives f ...

This policy note provides some answers by analyzing the strategies and policy choices of 14 countries that have successfully graduated from the LDC category, or have made noteworthy progress towards graduation.