LDCs

CDP Policy Review No. 2 By Keun Lee The paper discusses two ways of building productive capacity in LDCs: the manufacture of products to foreign buyers’ specifications, and the integration of resource-based sectors into global value chains using backwa ...

CDP Policy Review No. 1 By José Antonio Alonso The paper looks into the origins of Aid for Trade (AfT) and its objective of assisting developing countries to increase exports of goods and services and integrate into the multilateral trading system. Poi ...

On 29 September 2016 the CDP Subgroup on Leaving No One Behind will hold a virtual meeting to discuss development strategies that particularly promote the well-being of the worst off, as a part of the Committee’s multi-year work programme on the theme ...

On 21 July 2016 the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and OECD co-hosted a High-Level Panel discussion during the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum on the Future Measurement and Monitoring Framework for Development Finance in support of ...

On 19 July 2016 Professor Jose Antonia Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's findings on "Expanding productive capacity of least developed countries (LDCs) for achieving the sustainable developement goa ...

This paper attempts to identify different LDC clusters in which underdevelopment is caused by specific economic and social conditions.

This paper aims to draw insights from New Structural Economics by applying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF) to LDCs with a special focus on the case of Uganda.

The paper examines economic growth, environmental sustainability and human development in the Solomon Islands.

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's Report on it's 18th Session to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting (CMM) held on 1 June 2016. The CDP’s deliberations on LDC-r ...