Social Issues

On 16 July the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), Professor José Antonio Ocampo, introduced the Committee’s 2018 report, focusing on the CDP’s findings on “Leaving no one behind” at the High-level Segment of the 2018 ECOSOC session. H ...

The paper examines globalization’s effects on those left behind in both industrial and emerging markets.

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee’s Report on it’s 20th Session to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting (CMM) held on 12 June 2018. The CDP’s deliberations on LDC- ...

This paper provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues involved in the overarching goal of “leaving no one behind”.

This paper discusses examples of people not only being left behind but rather being pushed behind in all parts of the world.

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 CDP Secretariat participated as panelist at DESA’s special event “Building Capacity for the 2030 Agenda – UN DESA’s contribution”, arranged on the sidelines of the work of the GA’s Second Committee on 27 November 2017 by the Capacity Development Of ...

The subgroup on “Leaving no one behind” of the Committee on Development Policy (CDP) met in Mexico City from 14 - 16 November 2017. Discussions addressed numerous aspects of the concept of “leaving no one behind”, including conceptual issues, the relat ...