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15 February 2022

CDP Plenary 2022

Date: 21 - 25 February 2022
Place: Virtual meeting Documents Agenda Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2022/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Corrigendum (E/2022/33/Corr.1) to the Report of the Committee for Development Policy
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Opening Statements Statement by H.E. Ambassador Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Statement by Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Open Session on ECOSOC Interaction 25 February 2022, 10:00 - 11:30 AM (NY time)
The open session informed the ECOSOC membership on the…

17 November 2021

Frontier Technology Issues: Frontier technologies for smallholder farmers: addressing information asymmetries and deficiencies

Introduction While fertilizers, genetically modified crops, and biotechnology have brought substantial benefits for farmers in recent decades, the accelerated application of smart, digital, and precision agricultural technologies offers a historic opportunity to improve farm productivity going forward. Such technologies are wide-ranging, including small mobile applications for decision support, field sensors and remote sensing technologies for data collection, drones and robots for automation of processes, and digital platforms for market access and sales. Use of these technologies helps address information asymmetries and deficiencies facing farmers, particularly smallholders, which can… Frontier Technology Issues: Frontier technologies for smallholder farmers: addressing information asymmetries and deficiencies

10 November 2021

Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category: Inclusion, Graduation and Special Support Measures - Fourth Edition

The Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category contains comprehensive and authoritative information on criteria defining the category, graduation procedures, and international support measures for LDCs. This new edition contains updates to LDC criteria and procedures as well as new information particularly on ?smooth transition? provisions for countries graduating from the LDC category. The handbook, prepared by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), is intended for government officials, policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders interested in the LDC category.

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30 September 2021

2021 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (A/76/310)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Development cooperation with middle-income countries (A/76/375)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Development cooperation with middle-income countries: Corrigendum (A/76/375/Corr1)
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22 September 2021

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)

When a country leaves ("graduates" from) the least developed countries (LDC) category, there is often concern about the impacts on the support it will receive from the international community. This paper reviews, as part of a preliminary assessment for the countries the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will assess in 2024 (Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia), the expected impacts on financial and technical assistance and on support for the participation of these countries in international forums. Impacts on trade, often found to be the most significant, will be assessed separately. The general preliminary conclusion is that the impacts on development cooperation will be… Download

20 September 2021

Sustainable Development Outlook 2021: From anguish to determination

The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the global awareness that we are all in this together. The pandemic has set back progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but it has also made it possible for the international community to see the pursuit of sustainable development in a new light, and to learn from both successes and challenges of the pandemic to reinvigorate efforts towards achieving the SDGs. The Sustainable Development Outlook 2021 charts a way forward for the world community to achieve the SDGs, despite the setback caused by COVID-19. In doing so, it focuses on SDG 1 (poverty), SDG 2 (hunger), SDG 3 (health and well-being), SDG 8 (growth and employment), SDG 10 (… Sustainable Development Outlook 2021: From anguish to determination

08 July 2021

Frontier Technology Issues: Lithium-ion batteries: a pillar for a fossil fuel-free economy?

Download Frontier Technology Issues: Lithium-ion batteries: a pillar for a fossil fuel-free economy? (PDF) Introduction In 2019, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists for the development of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that, according to the Academy, have laid the foundation for a fossil fuel-free economy. Li-ion batteries can safely store large amounts of energy, ensuring stable and predictable flows of electricity even in decentralized immobile (i.e., stationary) or mobile modes in remote areas. The increasing popularity of passenger electric vehicles and electric buses is largely a result of the capacity improvement of Li-ion… Frontier Technology Issues: Lithium-ion batteries: a pillar for a fossil fuel-free economy?

01 June 2021

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 Least Developed Country (LDC) category. The focus is on discussing its general aspects, in order to help build, among key stakeholders, a common understanding of the general direction such an initiative might take. It intends to help move discourse (and practices) from (reactive) crisis management to (proactive) resilience management, representing a change in perspective likely to help move the process of LDC monitoring forward in a meaningful manner, qualifying the contribution that the CDP might provide in this regard. With an improved framework, vulnerable countries will be able to preventively… Download

19 April 2021

Comprehensive Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Least Developed Country Category

Upon request of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the Committee for Development Policy undertook a comprehensive on the impact of COVID-19 on the LDC category. It has two main intended uses. First, it is an input to the 2021 triennial review, meant to enable the Committee to incorporate fully into its triennial reviews the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on LDCs and countries graduating from the LDC category. Second, it is an input to a possible contribution by the Committee to the forthcoming fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, to be held in Doha from 23 to 27 January 2022. As a result, the study contains suggestions for support for LDCs and… Comprehensive Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Least Developed Country Category

19 March 2021

2021 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA Resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2021/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español CDP excerpts on the report by theme
?Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development
?The impact of COVID-19 on the LDC category
?The 2021 triennial review of the list of LDCs
?Monitoring of countries that are graduating and have graduated from the list of least developed countries…