Bangladesh - Developing the strategic guidelines for climate financing, multilateral climate funds, considering possible linkages between climate financing and post COVID 19 agricultural development

This report presents the current scenario of climate change in Bangladesh, highlighting risks and vulnerabilities, particularly in the agriculture sector, and provides a brief overview of the country’s climate finance landscape.

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) official reports and related ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions

In this link you will find all CDP reports, including the results of triennial reviews (please see reports for 2021, 2018, 2015, 2012, etc.); ECOSOC resolutions on the reports (on the years of triennial reviews these resolutions contain the endorsements, when applicable, of CDP recommendations for g

Policy Space for Building Production Capabilities in the Pharmaceuticals Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evidence from Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 051)

Over the past four decades Bangladesh has built enough domestic productive capacity in the pharmaceuticals and related industries to generate manufacturing capacity and employment to provide access to medicines in the country and to become a modest exporter of medicines as well.

Potential impacts of LDC graduation on development cooperation in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal, and Zambia: Preliminary assessment

When a country leaves (“graduates” from) the least developed countries (LDC) category, there is often concern about the impacts on the support it will receive from the international community.

Connectivity in Least Developed Countries: Status report 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored how poorly prepared Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are for a digital world.

It’s time to move beyond a debt moratorium and finance productive capacities in least developed countries

According to recent UNCTAD analysis, most LDCs will likely take several years to recover the level of GDP per capita they had in 2019, and compared to developed countries, which may experience a short V-shaped recovery, the median LDC would take roughly three years to climb back to pre-COVID-19 leve

Implementation, effectiveness and added value of smooth transition measures and graduation support - Report of the Secretary-General

The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 73/242, by which the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its seventy-sixth session a progress report on the implementation, effectiveness and added value of smooth transition measures covering both gradu

Follow the money: tracking Least Developed Countries’ adaptation finance to the local level

There is growing recognition that local organisations, people and communities need to lead or be meaningfully involved in the response to the climate, biodiversity and poverty crisis.

The need directly to target sustainable productive capacity in least developed countries (Daniel Gay)

"It may be time directly to start targeting the economic engine in LDCs rather than hoping that exposure to overseas markets will automatically spur development and resilience. Given the severity of the situation and the shortcomings of the approach so far, all options should be considered.