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Publications and reports on LDCs

Committee for Development Policy (CDP):
- LDC resources in the website of the Committee for Development Policy
- 2020 CDP report (including comprehensive review of LDC criteria, monitoring of graduated and graduating countries, improved assistance for graduating and graduated countries, proposal for a framework for the new programme of action for LDCs, based on productive capacities)
- Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category: Inclusion, Graduation and Special Support Measures – Third Edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations (2018)
- Expanding Productive Capacity: Lessons Learned from Graduating Least Developed Countries . Committee for Development Policy, Policy Note (2017)

UNCTAD:
- The Least Developed Countries Report (series), UNCTAD.
UN Secretary-General’s reports:
OHRLLS:
WTO:
- Documents of the Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries (including market access reports)
UNECA (UN Economic Commission for Africa):
- 2020 Review of progress made on the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020
UNESCAP (UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific):
- S tructural transformation, backward and forward linkages and job creation in Asia-Pacific least developed countries. UNESCAP, MPFD Policy Brief No. 99, May 2019
- Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2019: Structural transformation and its role in reducing poverty. UNESCAP, April 2019
UNCDF:
- Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries (UNCDF, OECD):
  - First edition, January 2019;
  - Second edition (Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries 2019), September 2019
EIF:
- Trade for Development News
- Resource Mobilization Guidebook (2020): English; Français; Português