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On 4 April 2012 the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Francis Stewart and CDP member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as panelists at a briefing on the “Post 2015 UN Development Fr

The new interactive platform compiles and catalogues information about LDC-specific international support measures provided by development partners.

On 28 January 2013 in San José, members of Costa Rica's technical national team participating in capacity development activities presented policy notes to government officials of that country.

Rehman Sobhan, Chairman of Centre for Policy Dialogue, a prominent think tank in Bangladesh, presented a seminar on "Designing Millennium Development Goals for a More Just World" in New York.

The World economic situation and prospects as of mid-2013 was launched today by ASG for Economic Development Shamshad Akhtar, DPAD Acting Director Pingfan Hong and Economic Affairs Officer Ingo Pit

• Sharp appreciation of the U.S. dollar
• Western European economy continues to struggle
• Ebola takes severe tolls in West Africa

Staffmembers from across DESA and other UN offices and agencies convened their first expert group meeting on 16 October in New York, to discuss the sketches of the five chapters that will comprise

From 9 to 10 December 2014 the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) conducted a workshop on graduation from the LDC category in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

On 16 March 2016 the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) organized a panel discussion on expanding productive capacity for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as a side event to the 18th

ECOSOC resolution (E/2016/L.19) on Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eighteenth session has