LDC Publications

CDP Background Paper No. 15 By Matthias Bruckner This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs). Taking a sustainable development perspective, it argues that climate change should be seen as ...

CDP Background Paper No. 14 By the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy This report makes some preliminary suggestions for actions to be taken by the international development community and the graduating countries to strengthen the proc ...

CDP Background Paper No. 13 By Ana Luiza Cortez and Namsuk Kim This paper reviews conflict as one of potential factors that could be incorporated in the identification of least developed countries (LDCs). It is not clear whether conflict can be conside ...

CDP Background Paper No. 12 By Patrick Guillaumont Structural economic vulnerability is a major obstacle for the development of LDCs. The paper discusses the conceptual, methodological and empirical issues related to the economic vulnerability index (E ...

CDP Policy Note   The present Policy Note takes stock of the nature of the financial, technical and institutional support and preferential trade-related treatments that have been provided to LDCs. It provides an assessment of how useful these exis ...

CDP Background Paper No. 6 By Samuel Wangwe and Prosper Charle This paper examines innovative approaches to domestic resource mobilization in selected Least Developed Countries. It covers various aspects of domestic resource mobilization with focus on ...

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. 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 ...