CDP Background Paper series

CDP Background Paper No. 5 By Olav Bjerkholt The aim of this paper is to summarize for discussion purposes arguments related to the debt crisis of poor developing countries and the attempts to cope with it through the HIPC Initiative.

CDP Background Paper No. 4 By Suchitra Punyaratabandhu This report was prepared to evaluate progress towards good governance in the context of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The first part of the report reviews the concept of g ...

CDP Background Paper No. 3 By Al Binger This is a report on resource mobilization for poverty eradication in the least developed countries. The first part of the report provides an overview of the current challenges faced by the LDCs in reducing the hi ...

CDP Background Paper No. 2 By Ryokichi Hirono This paper addresses the growing concern in the international community in recent years with the widening IT gap, or “information divide” so called, between urban and rural areas in developing economies and ...

CDP Background Paper No. 1 By Gao Shangquan The paper examines the trends and risks of economic globalization.