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

São Tomé and Príncipe's LDC Profile (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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	UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Report 2016: The path to graduation and beyond - Making the most of the process Graduation is the process through which a country ceases to be an LDC, having in principle overcome the structural handicaps that warrant special support from the international community, beyond that generally granted to other developing countries.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	13 décembre 2016
	Aid for Trade: Building Productive Capacity and Trade Capacities in LDCs (CDP Policy Review No. 1; Jose Antonio Alonso)	Trade	31 octobre 2016
	Industrial Policy, LDCs and the WTO Regime (CDP Policy Review No. 5; Keith Nurse)	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	26 octobre 2016
	Trade preferences for least developed countries - Are they effective? Preliminary econometric evidence (CDP Policy Review No. 4; Stephan Klasen, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann and Matthias Bruckner)	Trade	25 octobre 2016
	Clusters of Least Developed Countries, their evolution between 1993 and 2013, and policies to expand their productive capacity (CDP Background Paper No. 33) The conventional approach to least developed country (LDC) graduation has considered these countries as an undifferentiated group whose problems could be solved by means of similar measures focussing on domestic and international liberalisation, preferential aid allocations, and the promotion of the	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	11 juillet 2016
	Applying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework to the Least Developed Countries: The Case of Uganda (CDP Background Paper No. 32) This paper aims to draw insights from New Structural Economics by applying its practical policy tool – the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF) – to least developed countries (LDCs) with a special focus on the case of Uganda. The GIFF offers practical development paths for enab	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	30 juin 2016
	Productive Capacity and Trade in the Solomon Islands (CDP Background Paper No. 31) Economic growth, environmental sustainability and human development in the Solomon Islands have lagged much of the Pacific region since independence in 1978.	Trade	20 juin 2016
	Cost-benefit analysis for identifying institutional capacity building priorities in LDCs: an application to Uganda (CDP Background Paper No. 30) Institutional constraints prevent the Least Developed Countries from fully utilizing the trade-related International Support Measures provided by development partners.	Trade	21 avril 2016
	Building institutional capacity in the use of trade-related international support measures: Nepal - Setting priorities in addressing institutional constraints, findings and recommendations The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has developed a capacity building project on Removing Institutional Constraints in Utilizing Trade-Related International Support Measures (ISMs) for Least Developed Countries	Trade	30 décembre 2015
	Supporting LDCs´ Transformation: How can ODA Contribute to the Istanbul Programme of Action in the Post-2015 Era? (CDP Background Paper No. 28) Many intergovernmental processes, including the Istanbul Programme of Action, the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, call for a significant increase in ODA toward LDCs.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	24 août 2015
	Samoa's smooth transition strategy report - December 2014 Report by the Government of Samoa on the smooth transition strategy.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 décembre 2014
	Nepal’s Accession to the World Trade Organization: Case Study of Issues Relevant to Least Developed Countries (CDP Background Paper No. 23) Nepal was the first Least Developed Country to negotiate its accession to the World Trade Organization. The negotiation process was demanding, yet it succeeded in securing a relatively well-balanced accession package.	Trade	24 novembre 2014
	Accelerating Development in the Least Developed Countries through International Support Measures: Findings from Country Case Studies (CDP Background Paper No. 22) The least developed country category was established by the international community for countries requiring special support measures for dealing with their structural impediments to growth.	Development cooperation and multilateralism	12 octobre 2014
	LDC and other country groupings: How useful are current approaches to classify countries in a more heterogeneous developing world? (CDP Background Paper No. 21) The proliferation of country groupings indicates the need to assess the effectiveness of the current system for development cooperation and to explore better ways to manage the international system, as heterogeneity among developing countries increases.	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	15 septembre 2014
	The likelihood of 24 least developed countries graduating from the LDC category by 2020: an achievable goal? (CDP Background Paper No. 20) This paper examines the prospects of achieving a main goal of the Istanbul Programme of Action—at least half of the LDCs to meet the graduation criteria by 2020.	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	14 septembre 2014
	Trade benefits for least developed countries: the Bangladesh case (CDP Background Paper No. 18) Global evidence suggests that trade-related performance is becoming increasingly important for the socio-economic development of many developing countries.	Trade	15 juillet 2014
	Samoa's smooth transition strategy report - December 2013 Note by the government of Samoa on Samoa's smooth transition strategy.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 décembre 2013
	Enquête sur les mesures internationales d´appui liées à l´aide publique au développement multilatéral en faveur des pays les moins avancés - Résumé et analyse Ce rapport met l’accent sur l’enquête menée par le Secrétariat du Comité des politiques de développement (CPD) adressée aux organisations multilatérales pour recueillir des informations sur les différents types de mesures de soutien accordées aux pays les moins avancés (PMA).	Development cooperation and multilateralism	30 avril 2013
	Climate change vulnerability and the identification of least developed countries (CDP Background Paper No. 15) This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs).	Climate change and energy	15 juin 2012
	Strengthening smooth transition from the least developed country category (CDP Background Paper No. 14) This report makes some preliminary suggestions for actions to be taken by the international development community and the graduating countries to strengthen the process of preparing for graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	16 février 2012

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Photo Sergio Pires Vieira