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The Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2017/33, Supplement No.

An Expert Group Meeting on Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Development was held in New York on December 14 and 15 to discuss the background, objectives and outline of the World Economic and Social Survey 2018.  

With a potential global trade war in the horizon, Global Economic Monitoring Branch Chief Dawn Holland and Economic Affairs Officer Helena Afonso consider the potential impact of two strands of the trade policy debate on the United States labour market in “Trade Policy and the United States Labour Market”.

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) approved the new members of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), nominated by the Secretary-General, for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 201

Date: 27 November 2018, 1:15 - 2:30 PM
Place: UNHQ New York, Conference Room 8

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) members Keith Nurse and Rolph van der Hoeven attended the Expert Group Meeting on SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full

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.

Report on the outcome of the 22nd session of the CDP Plenary

Three CDP members will serve at ECOSOC's High-level Advisory Board aimed to reinvigorate multilateralism

Recovery from COVID-19 requires reframing the development paradigm towards equality, resilience, environmental sustainability

Report on the different aspects of LDC graduation and the textile and clothing sector in Asian graduating LDCs

This new edition contains updates to LDC criteria and procedures and new information on “smooth transition” provisions for countries graduating from the LDC category.