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Presentation of the 2025 CDP Report to ECOSOC and adoption of the 2025 ECOSOC Resolution

Presentation of the CDP report to ECOSOC's 2025 Management Segment and adoption of the ECOSOC resolution on the report

#AskUNCDP: Global Governance and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

On 15 March from 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm EST, join Committee for Development Policy members Prof. José Antonio Alonso (Complutense University, Spain), Prof. José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University, New York) and Prof. Keun Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea) on a live Facebook chat on global governance and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

DPAD mission to Beijing

Hamid Rashid and Pingfan Hong took a scoping mission to Beijing on 20-24 June, as part of the DESA capacity development project funded by RPTC on “macroeconomic implications of the Belt and Road In

Deviant Development? Lessons from the Rhino Poaching and Charcoal Trades in Mozambique

On 19th October 2016, the DSP unit organized a Development Policy Seminar on “Deviant Development? Lessons from the Rhino Poaching and Charcoal Trades in Mozambique”, presented by Dr.

Visualizing GDP and Inflation data worldwide: WESP 2017 Mid-year update

The most up-to-date indicators from the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2017 can now be found in our StatPlanet data visualization tool. StatPlanet allows users to easily browse through data regarding two main economic indicators; annual growth rate of real GDP and annual CPI inflation rate, for 176 UN Member States between 2001 and 2018.

Seminar: The Global Economic Outlook and its Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

Among the many issues touched upon were inequality and the economics of innovation and technology change; fostering broader private sector engagement in sustainable investment; and aligning educational priorities with the changing nature of work.

Productive capacity

This page contains work from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on the topic of "Productive capacity"

CDP member participates at UNGA side-event 'Curse or Cure? Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Technological Revolution'

On 27 September Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as speaker in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event ‘Curse or Cure?

CDP launches the revised edition of the Handbook on the LDC category

The Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category is prepared by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) to provide comprehensive information on the least developed country (LDC) categ

Three-minute PhD dissertation seminar at the United Nations

The Development Research Branch, in partnership with Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, hosted a unique Development Policy Seminar featuring the inaugural Ivy three-minute thesis competition in New York. Dubbed as IVY3MT2019, the event provided a platform to 14 PhD candidates from Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University to present their PhD dissertation ideas and key messages in 3 minutes, using only one slide.