LDC Resources

2025 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

Monitoring Reports for Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands

Potential impacts of LDC graduation: Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia; updated impact assessments for Solomon Islands and Tuvalu

This new edition contains updates to LDC criteria and procedures and new information on “smooth transition” provisions for countries graduating from the LDC category and is available in English

2024 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

Monitoring Reports for Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Equatorial Guinea, Lao PDR, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

The 2024 Country Snapshots compiles the key statistical data used by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) at the 2024 triennial review of the least developed country category. LDCs are defined as low-income countries suffering from structural imp ...

This short paper briefly describes the methodology of this new index and presents some empirical results. It also presents an extension that covers both export and import concentration.

This paper discusses the escalating external debt distress and financial constraints faced by many least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing countries.