This short paper briefly describes the methodology of this new index and presents some empirical results. It also presents an extension that covers both export and import concentration.
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This paper discusses the escalating external debt distress and financial constraints faced by many least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing countries.
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This study analyses the policy and developmental implications, for Cambodia, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia, of losing access to the LDC-specific provisions of the TRIPS Agreement
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This paper highlights the key findings of the annual studies by the CDP of the VNR reports submitted to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) from 2017 to 2021.
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While there are important improvements and positive developments in the VNRs over time, there remains a significant gap between the ambitions of the 2030 agenda and the policies, strategies and actions reported in the VNRs. The deep transformative change that is envisioned in the agenda and required to meet the SDGs is not evident in the VNRs.
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Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) are an important innovation as a United Nations process for follow up to the adoption of development agendas. The paper anal
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One of the most important elements of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs is the strong commitment to inclusive development, and leaving no one behind has emerged as a central theme of the agenda. How did this consensus come about? And what does this term mean and how is it being interpreted? This matters because the influence of SDGs on policy and action of governments and stakeholders in development operates through discourse. So the language used in formulating the UN Agenda is a terrain of active contestation. This paper aims to explain the politics that led to this term as a core theme. It argues that LNOB was promoted to frame the SDG inequality agenda as inclusive development, focusing on…
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