Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee of Development Policy (CDP), represented the Committee in the 2023 ECOSOC coordination segment.

LDC5 is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to accelerate sustainable development in the places where international assistance is needed the most - and to tap the full potential of the LDCs helping them make progress on the road to prosperity

Jose Antonio Ocampo highlighted the need for further multilateral action in achieving an inclusive, equitable and sustainable international tax order

Jose Antonio Ocampo participated in a panel on policy choices in the context of cascading crises and the need to invest in sustainable development

On 7 June 2023, Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee’s Report on its 25th Session at ECOSOC's 2023 Management Segment. The report is available here in all six UN languages. Responding to the mandate to examine and make recommendations on ECOSOC’s annual theme, it addresses just transition, the external debt crisis and the voluntary national reviews (VNRs).

Statements on the CDP's work on just transition, innovation ecosystems for development, structural change and equity, and VNRs

UN DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division hosted a three-part Development Policy Seminar series in July to present new thinking on inflation. Discussions focused on issues such as inflation’s underlying drivers, its asymmetric impacts, and the implications for policy. The series will inform the World Economic Situation and Prospects, 2026.

Solomon Islands is now scheduled to graduate on 13 December 2027

CDP briefing to ECOSOC members on its work on inputs to the ECOSOC theme and preparation of the 2024 triennial review of the list of LDCs