One central pledge of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to ensure that no one is left behind.
On 13 July the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) dedicated an entire session on this theme with a view to synthesize messages from earlier sessions that respond to the challenge of fulfilling the promise of leaving no one behind.

CDP Secretariat participates in the event on 16 July

The CDP participated at various events during ECOSOC's 2018 HLPF

The event provides an opportunity for LDCs to learn from each other’s best practices and identify effective policy options for accelerated implementation of the IPoA

This page contains work from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on the topic of "Productive capacity"

The Economic Analysis and Policy Division of UN DESA collaborated with the United Nations Development Programme, UN Regional Commissions, international organizations, as well as universities and research institutions, to develop modelling methodologies and provide capacity development programs to support country-tailored quantitative analysis that can effectively inform the policymaking process for national development planning.

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 event was a Consultative Meeting on Accelerating Progress Toward Graduation from the LDC Category

CDP Secretariat made a presentation on ‘The Needs and Priorities of LDCs in Economic Transformation’ at the meeting

The Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) contributed two sessions to the capacity-development workshop ‘Achieving structural economic progress toward and beyond graduation from Least Developed Country status in the Pacific,’ held in conjunction with UNCTAD in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 20 to 21 June 2018. The first session was on the ‘Gradjet’ website aimed at helping Least Developed Countries (LDCs) understand the process of leaving the LDC category. The second was on conceptualizing and implementing new support measures for highly vulnerable LDCs.