Recent papers, reports, blogs on LDC graduation by UN system entities and others (see also other content on graduation on this portal; UNCTAD vulnerability profiles; UNDESA impact assessments; Gradjet):
- CDP Secretariat/UNDESA, Smooth transition strategy guidance note, May 2021
- Debapriya Bhattacharya, “Life after LDC Graduation: How is Bangladesh poised for EU GSP+?”, TBS News, 21 April 2021
- ESCAP Working paper: “Structural Transformation, LDC Graduation and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Policy Options for Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar”, April 2021
- ESCAP Working paper: “Timor-Leste to Graduate from LDC Category and Beyond: through Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification”, April 2021
- ESCAP Working paper: “Structural Transformation in Graduating Pacific Least Developed Countries (LDCs)”, March 2021
- WTO: COVID-19 and Trade Trends in Graduating LDCs, February 2021
- Health and trade impacts of COVID-19 on graduating LDCs, WTO/EIF, December 2020
- European Commission, “Study in support of an impact assessment to prepare the review of GSP Regulation No 978/2012”, November 2020 (contains analysis of aspects related to graduation from LDC status). Presentation of the report here.
- Rahman, M. and D. Bhattacharya (2020), “Sustainable Graduation: International Support Measures for Graduating LDCs”, International Trade Working Paper, No. 2020/10, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.
- Towards Sustainable Graduation of South Asian LDCs in the aftermath of COVID-19: Challenges, Prospects and Policy Lessons, UNESCAP, 15 October 2020
- Daniel Gay and Kevin Gallagher, “The need to extend the WTO TRIPS pharmaceuticals transition period for LDCs in the COVID-19 era: Evidence from Bangladesh”, CDP Policy Review No. 10, August 2020.
- “Trade impacts of LDC graduation”, WTO and EIF, May 2020; and “Country-specific insights“, WTO and EIF, July 2020
- “In Preparation for WTO MC12: Safeguarding Trade Interests of LDCs and Securing Trade Interests of Graduating LDCs“, UNESCAP, May 2020
- “Graduation of Bhutan from the group of least developed countries: Potential implications and policy imperatives“, UNESCAP Working Paper WP/20/04, May 2020
- “Nepal’s graduation from the least developed country group: Potential implications and issues for consideration“, UNESCAP Working Paper Series WP 20/01, March 2020
- “Finding new support for Timor-Leste’s graduation from least developed country (LDC) status“, UN in Timor-Leste with CDP Secretariat, February 2020
- “Working Together for Lao PDR’s Sustainable LDC Graduation“, Op-Ed co-authored by Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith and UN Resident Coordinator Sara Sekkenes, October 2019
- “Finding new support for graduating LDCs“, Namsuk Kim (CDP Secretariat), October 2019
- Ana L. Cortez, “Improved assistance measures for graduated and graduating least developed countries for the achievement of agenda 2030“, CDP Policy Review No. 9.
- Mustafizur Rahman and Debapriya Bhattacharya, “Graduating LDCs in an Evolving WTO”, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, May 2019
- “LDC Graduation: Challenges and Opportunities for Vanuatu“, UNESCAP Working Paper Series WTP/19/04, April 2019
- “Preparing to graduate: Issues, challenges and strategies for Kiribati’s LDC graduation“, UNESCAP Working Paper Series WP/19/05, April 2019
- A Guide to Least Developed Country Graduation, OHRLLS, 2019
- Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category: Inclusion, Graduation and Special Support Measures – Third Edition, CDP, (available in English and French), 2018
- “Booming Bangladesh looks forward to LDC Graduation“, Daniel Gay (CDP Secretariat) October 2017
- UNCTAD, The Least Developed Countries Report 2016 – The path to graduation and beyond: Making the most of the process.
