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	Textiles and clothing in Asian graduating LDCs - Challenges and options. EIF, ITC, UNDESA, UNCTAD, WTO The textile and clothing sector in five Asian least developed countries (LDCs) — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal — makes heavy use of trade preferences for LDCs and is one of the main sectors likely to be impacted by graduation from the category.	01 February 2022
	Nepal's exports after LDC graduation - Implications of tariff changes and compensatory strategies - ITC and UN-OHRLLS During the triennial review held by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in February 2021, Nepal was recommended for graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category.	30 January 2022
	Boosting trade opportunities for least-developed countries: progress over the past ten years and current priorities - WTO Over the past decade, important progress has been made in supporting the integration of least-developed countries (LDCs) into the multilateral trading system.	20 January 2022
	Vulnerability Profile of Lao People’s Democratic Republic This report presents the vulnerability profile (VP) of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, as mandated by General Assembly resolution 59/209 of 20 December 2004.	17 January 2022
	Vulnerability profile of Bangladesh - UNCTAD This publication was prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in anticipation of the 2021 review by the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations of the list of least developed countries. Published January 2022.	17 January 2022
	Vulnerability Profile of Myanmar This report presents the vulnerability profile of Myanmar, as mandated in General Assembly resolution 59/209 of 20 December 2004, which stated that “after a country has fulfilled the criteria for graduation for the first time, UNCTAD is mandated to prepare a vulnerability profile on the identified c	17 January 2022
	Least Developed Country graduation: Past, present and future. Jose Antonio Ocampo for OECD Development Matters As the world prepares for the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), we need to ask not only whether this category is still relevant today but also what graduation from this status implies.	07 January 2022
	Nepal's elusive quest for export success meets LDC graduation - Paras Kharel for SAWTEE Nepal is hurtling towards graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category with a low per capita income and meagre exports. This paper analyses the implications of graduation for Nepal's exports, and suggests measures that Nepal government should take to mitigate the adverse effects.	31 December 2021
	LDC Sustainable Graduation Support Facility - Note December 2021 The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in its 2019 plenary recommended that capacity development work be undertaken in support of graduating and graduated countries and requested its secretariat, as part of its capacity development activities and in close collaboration with other relevant Uni	15 December 2021
	Handbook on the LDC Category, 2021 edition [THE HANDBOOK ON THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRY CATEGORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.	10 November 2021