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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 Chair at ECOSOC Informal Briefing on the Outcome of COP26

Climate change is above all an equity issue

Graduation of Bangladesh, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Nepal from the LDC category

UN GA adopts resolution to graduate these three countries from the LDC category

CDP member at UNIDO's Ministerial Conference of LDCs

Davos-style dialogue on the theme of the Conference "The Next Decade of Action:
Accelerating ISID in LDCs"

Post-pandemic industrial policy: jobs, growth, sustainability and resilience

Dialogue with members of the UN CDP, UN DESA and UNIDO on post-pandemic opportunities and challenges in industrial policy on 17 November 2021

Briefing on the work of the CDP and Launch of the LDC Handbook

On 10 November, the CDP provided updates on its recent work and launch the LDC Handbook

Launch of the 4th edition of the Handbook on 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.

Stephan Klasen Fellowship

Fellowship established in the honor of Stephan Klasen, CDP member and leader of the CDP subgroup on LDCs

CDP member addresses joint meeting of ECOSOC and the Second Committee of the GA

Why are productive capacities important for the development process in vulnerable economies?

CDP Members at the LDC Future Forum

First ever LDC Future Forum to tackle the unprecedented confluence of the COVID-19, climate, and economic crises

CDP member gives keynote address at the General Assembly’s Second Committee

Mariana Mazzucato gave keynote address

CDP organizes session at the Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting in preparation for LDC5

CDP session on “Supporting sustainable graduation: making graduation irreversible and a steppingstone to achieve the SDGs”

CDP member addressed ECOSOC's High-Level Segment

Prof. Bhattacharya addressed the ECOSOC High-Level Segment’s session on “Scenarios and possible medium and long term trends related to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the achievement of SDGs”.