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Foreign workers provide service to a customer at a booth for currency exchange and money transfers. Credit : ILO/Apex Image Date : 2009/07 Country : United Arab Emirates

Developments in global remittance flows and implications for sustainable development

Remittances—an important income source for millions of households—have become one of the largest forms of external financing for developing countries, with total inflows in 2023–2024 exceeding the combined value of net foreign direct investment inflows and official development assistance.

CDP Secretariat visits São Tomé and Príncipe

From 9 to 13 September the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) on graduation of least developed countries (LDCs) conducted a mission to São Tomé and Príncipe to discuss the possible impact of the country's graduation from the LDC category, scheduled for 2024.

For the least developed countries, revitalising multilateralism is life or death

Op-ed by Daniel Gay and Kevin Gallagher

AfCFTA – What is expected of LDCs in terms of trade liberalization?

Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre (tralac), discusses in her article the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and what it means especially for LDCs.

CDP member gives Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

CDP member Professor Ha-Joon Chang delivered the XVI Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

Introduction of the 2019 CDP Report at the ECOSOC High-Level Segment

On 16 July 2019, Professor José Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the CDP’s 2019 report to ECOSOC to the Council’s High-Level Segment.

CDP participates at VNR session of the 2019 HLPF

Vice-Chair of the CDP participated as resource person at the session of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) entitled "Four years of VNRs: what have we learned on implementing the SDGs?"

Launch of CDP Background Paper on 2018 VNR Reports

Findings of the CDP analysis of the 2018 Voluntary National Reviews, identifying many interesting examples for mutual learning and sharing of good practices, but also a need for more attention to these issues and more explicit discussions on strategies for their implementation

VNR Lab “Leaving no one behind: Inclusive implementation and reporting”

CDP presented key findings of the analysis of the 2018 VNR reports conducted by the CDP outlining how countries addressed three key issues: leaving no one behind; pursuing global partnership as means of implementation (SDG17); and quality education (SDG4)