LDCs

Monitoring reports for Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu

Half a century after its launch the CDP remains at the forefront of international development thinking, providing innovative, timely and practical advice from across the disciplines.

This paper analyzes opportunities for growth in Nepal by applying the policy tool of New Structural Economics – Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF).

2017 CDP report, ECOSOC resolutions, GA resolutions

20 - 20 March 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York, USA

This paper examines the process of building productive capacity in Ethiopia over the past two decades and the roles played by the state, government, the private sector, foreign firms and development partners.

In a special briefing on 21 March 2017, during the 19th Plenary Session of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP), Professors Tea Petrin, Dzodzi Rsikata, Keith Nurse and Rashid Hassan briefed delegates on lessons learned in building productive capacity in least developed countries (LDCs) – those who have graduated and those in the process of graduating.

Join us on Tuesday, March 21, from 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm at UNHQ New York Conference Room 6 for a panel discussion on “Developing Productive Capacity for Sustainable Development: Lessons learned from Least Developed Countries”. Members of the CDP will present the results of a detailed review of the experiences of 14 LDCs and highlight which factors and policies have been successful in moving countries towards graduation and sustainable development and how countries can sustain their development gains.

Some countries have graduated from the LDC category or made progress towards graduation not through progress in all three LDC criteria but by specializing in a few economic activities while at the same time investing in human capital. Bhutan falls within this latter category given that it specializes in natural resource based activities (hydropower generation) and tourism, with some manufacturing.