LDC Resources

2024 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 ...

2024 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

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.

This study analyses the policy and developmental implications, for Cambodia, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia, of losing access to the LDC-specific provisions of the TRIPS Agreement

2023 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

2023 Monitoring Reports for Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

This Policy Note focuses on the likely impacts, in the short and medium run, of the withdrawal of international support measures, taking into account the nature of these measures and how the identified countries have used them so far. It is available in English and French.