CDP News and Events

CDP Policy Review No. 8 By Namsuk Kim The progress made for enabling LDCs to move toward graduation has not been successful enough. Fourteen countries have been able to meet the criteria for graduation during 2011-2020, only half way to meet the target ...

CDP Policy Review No. 7 By Namsuk Kim This paper provides an overview on the interlinkage between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievement and Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation, by examining the relationship between the indicators to be ...

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Marc Fleurbaey co-directed the first report of the International Panel for Social Progress, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century. The panel brings together nearly 300 researchers, under the chairmanship ...

Date: 27 November 2018, 1:15 - 2:30 PM Place: UNHQ New York, Conference Room 8 The Secretariat of the CDP will hold a briefing on the 3rd edition of the Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category. The Handbook provides comprehensive and up-to-dat ...

On 26 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) successfully launched the Gradjet LDC graduation website (www.gradjet.org) attended by Government officials from 10 LDCs, international agencies and other interested stakeholde ...

On October 30, the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) briefed the LDC Sub-committee of the WTO on recent developments in the graduation of least developed countries (LDCs). Information was provided on the role of the CDP in regar ...

From 23 to 26 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) conducted the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) of the CDP Subgroup on least developed countries (LDCs) in Geneva, Switzerland to (i) discuss issues related to the review of t ...

The Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) participated in the Workshop for the 2019 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) at the High-Level Political Forum, organized by the Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Susta ...

On 26 October 2018 a new website for least developed countries (LDCs) will officially launch at UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Gradjet, developed by the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat, will help government officials in L ...