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LDC and other country groupings: How useful are current approaches to classify countries in a more heterogeneous developing world?

LDC and other country groupings: How useful are current approaches to classify countries in a more heterogeneous developing world?
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LDC and other country groupings: How useful are current approaches to classify countries in a more heterogeneous developing world?
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

CDP Background Paper No. 21

By Jos? Antonio Alonso, Ana Luiza Cortez and Stephan Klasen

The proliferation of country groupings indicates the need to assess the effectiveness of the current system for development cooperation and to explore better ways to manage the international system, as heterogeneity among developing countries increases. Great caution should be exercised in devising new country categories. Donors can use sound criteria for aid allocation without creating new groupings. If new categories are created at all, issue-based classifications should be preferred to comprehensive categories; support should be issue-specific. Among the existing comprehensive classifications, the LDC category has significant advantages but it needs to better address the problems and incentives associated with graduation.