São Tomé and Príncipe graduated on 13 December 2024 (see the General Assembly resolution here).

CDP monitoring report, 2025
Evaluation Report of the Graduation Process of São Tomé and Príncipe from the List of LDCs
São Tomé and Príncipe's graduated country fact sheet (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, São Tomé and Príncipe's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessment of the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profile, country statement to the CDP and CDP monitoring reports).

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	Study in support of an impact assessment to prepare the review of GSP Regulation No. 978/2012 Final Report. Volume 1. Main report. The European Commission has commissioned a study in support of an impact assessment to prepare the review of GSP Regulation No 978/2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (the generalised scheme of preferences, GSP).	Trade	26 Julio 2021
	The road to LDC graduation in Timor-Leste The Covid-19 crisis hit Timor-Leste harder than many countries. (...) While the country remains an LDC the government should also use existing LDC-specific funds and facilities as fully as possible.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 Junio 2021
	COVID-19 pandemic: threats to SMEs in poorest nations require swift policy action - Frank Hartwich and Jenny Larsen for OECD Development matters Governments must walk a fine line between taking action to save existing industrial firms and putting in place longer-term measures that build back better with more resilient industries, more able to resist shocks such as pandemics. Key policies that could drive the inclusive and sustainable indu	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	28 Junio 2021
	Zambia: Sustainable Investment Requirements This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments. The companion guide presents an overview of Zambia’s environmental and social regulations for investment operations in agroprocessing and light manufacturing.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	28 Junio 2021
	Mozambique: Sustainable Investment Requirements - ITC This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments. The companion guide presents an overview of Mozambique’s environmental and social regulations for investment operations in agroprocessing and light manufacturing.	Finance, debt, macroeconomics	28 Junio 2021
	Ethiopia: Sustainable Investment Requirements This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments. The companion guide presents an overview of Ethiopia’s environmental and social regulations for investment operations in agroprocessing and light manufacturing.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	28 Junio 2021
	What Can Least Developed Countries and Other Climate Vulnerable Countries Expect from The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)? The European Commission is expected to present a formal proposal for the CBAM on 14 July.	Climate change and energy	25 Junio 2021
	Asia-Pacific Least Developed Countries: A Review of Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action and Way Forward This paper provides an evaluation of the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on least developed countries (LDCs) in Asia and the Pacific.	LDC Progress reports/Flagship reports	21 Junio 2021
	COVID-19 Pandemic and the Asia-Pacific LDCs: Impacts, challenges, gaps and way forward This paper provides an evaluation of the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on least developed countries (LDCs) in Asia and the Pacific.	COVID-19	21 Junio 2021
	Trade and Gender in LDCs - UNCTAD and EIF Women across countries and regions face many obstacles that hamper their capacity to fully benefit from international trade and more generally from their participation in the economy. In the case of Least Developed Countries, such obstacles are magnified by persistent and acute development challe	Trade	08 Junio 2021
	Promoting SME Competitiveness in Togo: A resilient foundation for transformative growth Enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises in Togo can protect them from the effects of crises and unleash their potential to trigger economic transformation. Drawing on data from the SME Competitiveness Survey, this report shows that Togolese businesses that fared better d	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	03 Junio 2021
	Towards a resilience-building framework for monitoring countries graduating and graduated from the Least Developed Country category (CDP Background Paper No. 51) This paper provides conceptual inputs on a potential bi-modal monitoring framework for the Least Developed Country (LDC) category.	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	01 Junio 2021
	The Social Costs of Graduating from Least Developed Country Status: Analyzing the impact of increased protection on insulin prices in Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 038) In 2021, the United Nations Committee on Development Policy will consider whether Bangladesh should graduate from ‘least developed country’ (LDC) status.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 Mayo 2021
	State of the Least Developed Countries 2021 - Building back better in response to COVID-19 The State of the Least Developed Countries 2021 report is a comprehensive assessment of where the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) stand a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.	LDC Progress reports/Flagship reports	27 Mayo 2021
	Cultivating Small and Medium-Sized Firms: Entrepreneurship Development, Gender, and Technology in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Senegal - Technololgy Bank, This report examines and compares the strategies that four LDCs have adopted on these three fronts.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	11 Mayo 2021
	Utilization of Trade Preferences by LDCs: 2015-2019 Patterns and Trends The fifth in a series by the WTO secretariat for the Committee on Rules of Origin, this new note analyses underutilization of trade preferences and trends thereof from 2015 to 2019. Previous calculations of utilization rates by the Secretariat have highlighted that significant proportions of prefer	Trade	07 Mayo 2021
	Summary of the webinar on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing sector, 7 May 2021 - WTO The WTO, in cooperation with ITC, UNCTAD and UNDESA, organized a webinar on 7 May 2021. It kicked off an inter-agency collaboration to undertake an in-depth sectoral study on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	07 Mayo 2021
	Smooth transition for graduating LDCs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 4 May 2021. Daniel Gay. It is widely accepted that least developed countries (LDCs) leaving the category need special measures to smooth the transition. The next graduates include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR and Solomon Islands, but others will soon follow.	Trade	04 Mayo 2021
	Smooth Transition Strategy Guidance Note This STS guidance note, developed by UNDESA as the CDP Secretariat, is in response to the recommendations of the General Assembly and the follow-up actions proposed by the CDP on strengthening smooth transition measures and dedicated capacity building to help graduating and graduated countries prepa	LDC graduation and smooth transition	03 Mayo 2021
	Amid cyclones and COVID-19, Vanuatu makes bold decision to graduate from ‘least developed country’ category - Violeta Gonzalez Behar and Michelle Kovacevic for OECD Development matters On 4 December 2020, Vanuatu shed its official classification as one of the world’s least developed countries (LDC). This significant milestone – called ‘graduation’ – is something that only five other countries have managed to achieve in the last 40 years.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 Abril 2021

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