In the context of the disruptions in international trade in 2025, Ha-Joon Chang reflects on why the time is ripe for a New New International Economic Order.
In the second CDP Issue Brief, Sabina Alkire discusses the potential of data for poverty eradication and the opportunities for WSSD2 to act on that potential.
Global trade has undergone an extraordinary transformation over the past five decades. However, a succession of shocks has profoundly altered global trade dynamics, exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains, shifted policy priorities, and fuelled geopolitical frictions.
This Policy Note compiles perspectives from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and its members on different dimensions of a globally just transition to low-carbon and environmentally sustainable economies.
This paper discusses the escalating external debt distress and financial constraints faced by many least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing countries.
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.
This article connects the work that underpinned the Agenda?s emergence with the continuing challenges of its implementation as a process of norm making and norm evolution
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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