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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ITC Trade Briefs: The Export Potential of LDCs in Light of the War in Ukraine - April 2022 The aim of this month’s Spotlight is twofold. First, we show how the IMF’s recent GDP revisions have impacted our export potential estimates for 2026 by sub-region and country.		04 Mayo 2022
Local Government Finance is Development Finance - UNCDF The recently approved UNCDF Strategic Framework 2022–2025 continues this tradition by emphasizing UNCDF’s hybrid nature as a development finance institution on the one hand and a United Nations development agency on the other.	Finance, debt, macroeconomics	30 Abril 2022
Present and future of work in the Least Developed Countries - ILO This report provides an overview of the state of development and the structural challenges facing LDCs along the dimensions of structural transformation, productive employment, work conditions and just transition.	Poverty, health, education, food security, employment, social security	29 Abril 2022
Collateral damage? The Russia-Ukraine conflict and energy transitions in Least Developed Countries, Harry Verhoeven for OECD Development Matters Discussions about climate are, always, discussions about distribution- of costs, benefits and sacrifices. For years now, the grand bargain required to ward off the existential threat of human-induced global warming has been clear.	Climate change and energy	28 Abril 2022
Nepal after LDC Graduation: New avenues for exports - ITC in collaboration with UN-OHRLLS Nepal could lose 4.3% of exports because of tariff changes when it graduates from least developed country status in 2026. The removal of preferential tariffs will especially affect the apparel, synthetic textile fabric and carpet sectors.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	21 Abril 2022
United Republic of Tanzania: Invisible Barriers to Trade - Business Perspectives ITC More than a third of Tanzanian companies have fully or partially resolved trade obstacles in the last six years.	Trade	13 Abril 2022
A new generation of partnerships and co-operation will be needed to deliver the DPoA - UN-OHRLLS Over the past decade and more international relations have become more multipolar, as seen in the increasing political and economic prominence of countries such as India and China, divergences between large developed countries and regions, and the continued emergence of the Global South.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	11 Abril 2022
Tailored, multidimensional and coherent: towards a renewed EU partnership with least developed countries - ecdpm Discussion Paper No. 319 The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected life for citizens in the world’s poorest countries, wiping out years of progress in poverty reduction. Rising food, fuel and fertiliser prices caused by the war in Ukraine will further worsen the situation.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	11 Abril 2022
Financing for Development in the Least Developed Countries - Needs, challenges and the Doha Programme of Action - Global Policy Forum The first part of the report looks at the development financing needs of LDCs. We summarize existing estimates of SDG financing needs for the LDCs.	Finance, debt, macroeconomics	07 Abril 2022
Accelerating Support to LDCs in Formulating and Implementing NAPs - UNFCCC  The 46 least developed countries (LDCs), home to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, face the most adverse impacts of climate change, despite contributing least to the problem.	Climate change and energy	07 Abril 2022
Four key challenges facing least developed countries - UNCTAD Video About 1.1 billion people live in least developed countries (LDCs), which face daunting development challenges. The LDC group grew from an initial 25 countries in 1971 to a peak of 52 in 1991 and stands at 46 today.	Finance, debt, macroeconomics	04 Abril 2022
Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries 2022-2023	Development cooperation and multilateralism	02 Abril 2022
Trade impacts of LDC graduation - Matters related to the WTO agreements WTO members offer special treatment to least-developed countries (LDCs). They benefit from greater market access opportunities, flexibilities in implementing WTO rules and assistance aimed at strengthening their capacity to trade.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	01 Abril 2022
Les Pays les moins avancés, la France et l’Europe - Patrick Guillaumont, FERDI Le programme de la Présidence française pour l’Union européenne indique sous le chapitre « développement » que la France entend contribuer au renouvellement des politiques européennes envers les Pays les moins avancés (PMA).	Development cooperation and multilateralism	30 Marzo 2022
Strategy for graduation with momentum: Bridging pre-graduation and post-graduation development processes in the least developed countries - UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 99 The development path followed by a country prior to graduation from the least developed country category has significant implications with regard to the challenges to be faced after graduation. The current conceptualization of a smooth transition strategy primarily aims to create a short-term pos	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 Marzo 2022
Five things to know about Least Developed Countries and ecommerce - EIF, Deanna Ramsay and Inga Chilashvili The COVID-19 pandemic has given stimulus to embracing eCommerce and digital technologies while intensifying pre-existing digital divides and highlighting how LDCs need to better prepare for a digital world.	Trade	18 Marzo 2022
Blog: Achieving growth with structural change in LDCs: Priorities for the Doha Programme of Action, Neil Balchin, The Commonwealth The leaders of the world’s 46 least developed countries (LDCs) are meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 17th, 2022 to adopt the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA), setting a renewed agenda for development in LDCs. Practical and innovative ways to accelerate inclusive econo	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	16 Marzo 2022
Good Practices in South-South & Triangular Cooperation in LDCs This publication on “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation in LDCs: From the Istanbul Programme of Action to Achieving Sustainable and Resilient Development” showcases 80 important examples of effective action.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	16 Marzo 2022
LDCs and their "development" - Litmus test of international co-operation, Barbara Adams and Julie Kim for Global Policy Watch/Social Watch One of the global processes falling prey to the Omicron variant of the Covid virus was the fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed countries, originally scheduled for the end of January in Doha, Qatar.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	16 Marzo 2022
Foreign Direct Investment in LDCs: Investment trends and policies since LDC IV and the way forward - UNCTAD The discussion in this report brings together, in a concise form, the extensive analysis of investment and investment policy trends in LDCs contained in annual editions of UNCTAD’s flagship World Investment Report (WIR).	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	15 Marzo 2022