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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The least developed countries need a new generation of international support measures to face the development challenges of the 2020s - UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 97 Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the least developed countries had fallen behind other country groups, including other developing countries.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	24 février 2022
Towards a smooth transition strategy for Bhutan - UNCTAD This report is intended to propose key elements for consideration by the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGB), its development and trading partners, and other interested stakeholders, as the country seeks to develop a national smooth transition strategy.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	23 février 2022
A new programme of action for Commonwealth LDCs - Progress, challenges and priorities (document) - The Commonwealth The Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), which ran from 2011 to 2020, set out a vision and strategy for sustainable development in least developed countries (LDCs) by seeking to overcome some of their persistent development challenges. This report takes stock of the progress made and the challeng	Trade	23 février 2022
Compendium of technical notes prepared for the Least Developed Countries WTO group on preferential rules of origin - UNCTAD This compendium contains the main notes and technical materials that have been prepared by UNCTAD on requests by the WTO LDCs group to support the ongoing progress to implement paragraph (b) of annex F of the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Decision “Ensure that preferential Rules of Origin applicable to	Trade	21 février 2022
Towards a Commonwealth 10-point programme of action for LDCs Over the past decade, the IPoA’s ambitious policy agenda sought to address many of these constraints. Despite progress during the IPoA, some of which has been derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the LDC development agenda remains unfinished.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	17 février 2022
Why the least developed countries of the Commonwealth are doing better at trade, Brendan Vickers, Salamat Ali and Neil Balchin for OECD Development Matters In 2020, the share of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in world trade remained at just 1%. Although the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) for LDCs and SDG target 17.11 both sought to double LDCs’ share of global exports by 2020, the world’s 47 LDCs missed the target.	Trade	16 février 2022
Financing Local Adaptation to Climate Change: an Introduction to Performance-Based Climate Resilience Grants Building on two decades of experience in local development finance, the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has established the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) to address the unfunded mandate of local governments in addressing climate change adaptation. Local governments in least d	Climate change and energy	08 février 2022
Export potential under the African Continental Free Trade Area: Limited prospects for the least developed countries in Africa? UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 94 Free trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area commenced in January 2021.	Trade	08 février 2022
Ethiopia: Sustainable investment in agroprocessing and light manufacturing Cambodia's small and medium-sized enterprises play a central role in the country's economy and development, but face a number of challenges that have been further complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data from the SME Competitiveness Survey, this report shows how competitivene	Trade	07 février 2022
Building capacity in the LDCs to fully harness the potential of fisheries and aquaculture - Training Manual UNCTAD UNCTAD has been implementing a Development Account Project designed to build the export capacities of LDCs and other vulnerable economies to enhance the role of the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The outputs of the project include the establishment of Regional Centres of Excellence in Asia and	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	01 février 2022
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.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	01 février 2022
What Drives Safeguarding for China's Hydropower Projects in LDCs? IIED China has a leading role in building large hydropower dams in developing nations, partly in the name of sustainable development.	Climate change and energy	31 janvier 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.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 janvier 2022
Bringing the voice of the Least Developed Countries into the G20 policy agenda (UNCTAD) This report is divided into four sections. Chapter 1 addresses the role of African countries within the G20 decision making processes.		25 janvier 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.	Trade	20 janvier 2022
Manuel relatif à la catégorie des pays les moins avancés, 2021 - CPD La quatrième édition du Manuel sur la catégorie des pays les moins avancés apporte des informations exhaustives sur la catégorie des pays les moins avancés (PMA), notamment une description des procédures et méthodologies qui ont servi à identifier ces pays et des mesures de soutien international do	LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures	17 janvier 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.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	17 janvier 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.	Vulnerability	17 janvier 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	LDC graduation and smooth transition	17 janvier 2022
Podcast: How trade finance can support LDCs' economic recovery - Building capacity through collaboration, ICC academy Annette Ssemuwemba, EIF's Deputy Executive Director, and Endris Negus, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ethiopia talk about how trade finance can support LDCs' economic recovery and safeguard the livelihoods of millions of workers, with host Priyanka	Trade	16 janvier 2022