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Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries, by Matthias Bruckner (CDP Background Paper No. 59)

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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Impacts of LDC Graduation on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in Cambodia, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia, by Nirmalya Syam and Shirin Syed (CDP Background Paper No. 57)

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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What the United Kingdom's new Developing Countries Trading Scheme means for least developed countries (LDCs), including countries in the graduation process, by Mohammad Abdur Razzaque (CDP Background Paper No. 55)

The UK has adopted a new Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) which makes it easier for graduating LDCs to accede to the intermediary ?Enhanced Preferences? scheme
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Potential impacts of LDC graduation on development cooperation in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal, and Zambia: Preliminary assessment

Potential impacts of LDC graduation on development cooperation in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal, and Zambia: Preliminary assessment, by Marcia Tavares (CDP Background Paper No. 53)

The general preliminary conclusion is that the impacts on development cooperation will be relatively small, as most development partners do not rely on whether or not a country is an LDC as a primary determinant of their assistance.
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Towards a resilience-building framework for monitoring countries graduating and graduated from the least developed country category, by Djalita Fialho and Namsuk Kim (CDP Background Paper No. 51)

This paper provides conceptual inputs on a potential bi-modal monitoring framework for the LDC category
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Migration, Diasporas and the Sustainable Development Goals in Least Developed Countries

Migration, Diasporas and the Sustainable Development Goals in Least Developed Countries by Keith Nurse (CDP Background Paper No. 48)

CDP Background Paper No. 48
By Keith Nurse
Migration and the growth of global diasporas are key contemporary trends which impact on the pledge to ?leave no one behind? in the 2030 Agenda. The developmental potential of migration is
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Lessons learned in developing productive capacities: Fourteen case studies, by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat (CDP Background Paper No. 37)

Least developed countries (LDCs) are characterized by limited productive capacities, which constrains their efforts towards structural transformation and sustainable development. At the same time, the actual policy choices countries that have graduated or have made significant progress towards graduation from the LDC category provide a wide range of lessons other LDCs and the international community can learn from. Whereas countries can be on different pathways towards graduation, a diverse set of social, macroeconomic, financial, agricultural and industrial policies can be effective. However, good development governance is the key factor for successfully expanding productive capacity.
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Applying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework to Nepal, By Dr. Jiajun Xu and Sarah Hager (CDP Background Paper No. 35)

This paper analyzes opportunities for growth in Nepal by applying the policy tool of New Structural Economics ? Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF). Drawing on firm level surveys, stakeholder interviews, and existing datasets it aims to contribute to policy discussions in Nepal and to demonstrate the use of the GIFF for other least developed countries. The report argues that Nepal should seek to capture industrial transfer from China to establish a foothold in global value chains, create employment and catalyze structural transformation. The report identifies product-level advantages arising from preferential market access and sector-specific binding constraints, and…
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Productive Capacity and Economic Growth in Ethiopia, by Admasu Shiferaw (CDP Background Paper No. 34)

This paper examines the process of building productive capacity in Ethiopia over the past two decades and the roles played by the state, government, the private sector, foreign firms and development partners. Productive capacity is defined broadly as the natural resource potential, accumulation of human capital and the institutions that facilitate inclusive and sustainable economic growth. This process also encompasses the nurturing modern entrepreneurial skills in the private sector and fostering innovation. The paper starts with an overview of Ethiopia's economic growth and the change in the domestic economic structure. The manufacturing sector is seen as the success of Ethiopia's Growth…
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Clusters of Least Developed Countries, their evolution between 1993 and 2013, and policies to expand their productive capacity, by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Antonio Scognamillo (CDP Background Paper No. 33)

The conventional approach to least developed country (LDC) graduation has considered these countries as an undifferentiated group whose problems could be solved by means of similar measures focusing on domestic and international liberalisation, preferential aid allocations, and the promotion of their exports by means of trade preferences and free market access. This paper tries to go beyond this analytical and policy tradition and attempts to identify different LDC clusters in which underdevelopment is caused by specific economic and social conditions, and for which the solution depends not only on traditional support measures, but also on the implementation of differentiated, country-…
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