On 27 September Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as speaker in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event ‘Curse or Cure? Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Technological Revolution’ organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The discussion took stock of the challenges and opportunities posed by the fourth industrial revolution, considering policy innovations occurring around the world and how they aim to ensure that technological transformations are leveraged in ways that leave no one behind.

CDP member participated in GA event sharing accounts of how agricultural statistics saves lives

The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 reviews the advances in frontier technologies – automation, robotics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence – and analyses their economic, social and environmental impact. Join Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Liu Zhenmin, and Chief of the Development Research Branch at UN/DESA, Hamid Rashid, at the launch of the Survey on Monday, 8 October 2018 2018, 11 am EDT.

Alex Julca, Economic Affairs Officer in the Development Research Branch attended the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rome, Italy on 12-13 September 2018. The conference provided an opportunity for a thorough understanding of structural and technological challenges that many countries face, while addressing poverty reduction, quality economic growth, health inequalities, climate risks, water-energy-land linkages, and skills upgrade and diversification-related challenges. 

Training on Gradjet

The interview explains the LDC category and what it takes for an LDC to graduate; which challenges an LDC faces on the road to graduation; and how the international community can support those graduating LDCs

On 24 July the Coordination and Management Meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) reviewed the Report of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on its twentieth session.

Vice-Chair of the CDP moderated the lab and presented key findings of the recent analysis of the VNR reports conducted by the CDP, outlining which groups are among those furthest left behind

Chair of the CDP presented key findings of the recent analysis of VNR reports conducted by the CDP

On 16 July the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), Professor José Antonio Ocampo, introduced the Committee’s 2018 report, focusing on the CDP’s findings on “Leaving no one behind” at the High-level Segment of the 2018 ECOSOC session. He stressed that meeting the pledge to leave no one behind requires significant changes both nationally and internationally. Professor Ocampo also welcomed the progress of a substantial number of least developed countries towards the shared goal of advancing towards graduation from the category.