From UN News: São Tomé and Príncipe takes major development step
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16 December 2025.
World News in Brief - São Tomé and Príncipe takes major development step.
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Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Committee for Development Policy Plenary meeting
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will hold its 2024 Plenary meeting from 4 to 8 March at UN Headquarters in New York. This is a closed meeting. The CDP will report to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on its deliberations, including the results of the Triennial Review of the LDC category.
CDP Plenary 2024 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs (un.org)
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Commitee for Development Policy (CDP) briefing to ECOSOC on its work on LDCs
30 November 2022
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) briefed members of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on its ongoing work on the LDCs. More information here: Briefing to ECOSOC on the work of the CDP on LDCs | Department of Economic and Social Affairs (un.org)
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From the CDP Secretariat/UNDESA: Improved ePing launched
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From the CDP Secretariat/UNDESA: 13 July 2022. An improved version of the online alert system ePing was launched on 13 July, providing a single-entry point for users to submit and track information on product requirement while enhancing coordination among government agencies and the private sector.
Report of the Committee for Development Policy's 2022 Plenary meeting now available
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The Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2022/33, Supplement No.
Fifty Years of Least Developed Countries: Rationale and Impact of a Differential Treatment
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A Brief History of the LDCs: podcast with CDP member Taffere Tesfachew, by UNCDF Capital Musings
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CDP Member Taffere Tesfachew discusses the history of the LDC category, support by the UN system to the category, and the prospects and challenges for LDCs, including issues related to graduation, in the context of the crisis induced by COVID-19 and climate change: #32 A Brief History of the LDCs - Capital Musings (uncdf.org)
Presentation of CDP Report at ECOSOC High-level Segment
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On 16 July 2021, Jose Antonio Ocampo , Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) introduced the Committee's report to the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC. He stressed the importance of universal vaccination, increased financial support and debt relief to developing countries, structural transformation and a new, supportive, multilateralism to secure a sustainable, equitable and resilient recovery from COVID-19.
LDC5 Prepcom side-event: Productive Capacities for the New Decade
Why is productive capacity central to the sustainable development of least developed countries (LDCs)? How can LDCs, with support from development partners, expand their productive capacity through domestic policies including efforts to build back better from COVID-19? How can the Fifth United Nations Conference on the LDCs (LDC5) contribute to these efforts through the new Programme of Action?
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