Progress of African LDCs in IPoA priority areas
At the 52nd Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (March 20-26, 2019), the Committee of Experts assessed progress of African LDCs in...
New UNCDF report on blended finance in LDCs
The report ‘Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries’ prepared by UNCDF in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Southern Voice...
New report on the “State of the Least Developed Countries”
The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) has released...
General Assembly Resolution on LDCs
In December 2018 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 73/242 on the "Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries". The...
Energy access and main challenges in the LDCs
The LDCs have a long way to go to achieve universal access to modern energy by 2030. Sustainable energy, encompassing its three dimensions of...
Least developed countries steal the spotlight
The statement came at noon on 15th March 2018. The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) had just finished its deliberations on the triennial review...
The 2018 triennial review of the LDC category
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) held its 20th Plenary session from 12 to 16 March 2018 at the United Nations headquarters in New...
Support for LDCs with extreme vulnerability – assisting Tuvalu
March 23, 2018. Tuvalu was identified as eligible for graduation from the list of LDCs in 2012, based on its high levels of per...
Rethinking support measures for the least developed countries
Daniel Gay, Inter-Regional Adviser on LDCs
Committee for Development Policy Secretariat
Part I, below, discusses critically the theoretical background behind the existing international support measures for...
“Impact Assessments”: What happens when a country graduates from the LDC category?
When a country graduates from the LDC category, it no longer benefits from LDC-specific international support measures. The practical implications and significance of that...
Supporting growth in LDCs requires both financial resources and progress towards addressing institutional deficiencies...
The last decade has been punctuated by a series of broad-based economic crises and negative shocks, starting with the global financial crisis of 2008–2009,...
Productive capacity in LDCs
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has published a policy note on Expanding Productive Capacity: Lessons Learned from Graduating Least Developed Countries. The Policy Note analyzes the strategies...
