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2021 Impact Assessments

Bangladesh - 3 March 2020 Lao PDR - 5 March 2020 Myanmar - 6 May 2020
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2021 Vulnerability Profiles

Bangladesh Lao People's Democratic Republic Myanmar
2021 Monitoring Reports

2021 Monitoring Reports

Angola Letter from the Government of Angola to the Chair of the CDP, 29 December 2020 Bhutan Report on the preparation of Bhutan's Smooth Transition Strategy from the Least Developed Countries category Equatorial Guinea Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Solomon Islands Vanuatu
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The need to extend the WTO TRIPS pharmaceuticals transition period for LDCs in the COVID-19 era: Evidence from Bangladesh, by Daniel Gay and Kevin Gallagher (CDP Policy Review No. 10)

Bangladesh is one of the most successful least developed countries (LDCs). The country has made such strides that in 2021 the United Nations Committee for Development Policy will consider whether it should graduate out of the LDC category altogether. Like few others, Bangladesh took advantage of WTO flexibilities to build a vibrant pharmaceuticals industry that not only provides needed industrialization and employment but also gives access to essential medicines to millions of Bangladeshis as well as people in other developing countries and LDCs. LDC graduation would bring a loss of WTO exceptions, particularly in the intellectual property arena. This policy brief synthesizes recent… Download
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2020 Monitoring Reports

Angola Bhutan Equatorial Guinea São Tomé and Príncipe Solomon Islands Vanuatu

2020 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA Resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2020/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español CDP excerpts on the report by theme
Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development
The voluntary national reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The comprehensive review of the LDC criteria
Monitoring of countries that are graduating and have graduated from the list of least developed countries
Improved assistance for graduating and graduated least developed countries
Framework for the Programme of Action for least developed…
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Frontier Technology Quarterly: Frontier technologies for addressing plastic pollution

The severity of plastic pollution is now well-recognized, and countries and communities are looking for innovative solutions for addressing this menace of the modern age. This issue of the Frontier Technology Quarterly shows that new technologies such as nanotechnology, genetic modification and advanced chemical processes can help curb plastic pollution by developing natural substitutes and producing more biodegradable plastics. However, appropriate policies are needed to maximize the potential of new technologies for winning the fight against plastic pollution. Interventions at the production stage will have to be complemented by interventions at other stages of the plastics life cycle,… Frontier Technology Quarterly: Frontier technologies for addressing plastic pollution
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Improved assistance measures for graduated and graduating least developed countries for the achievement of agenda 2030, by Ana L. Cortez (CDP Policy Review No. 9)

LDC graduation has become an increasingly important issue in the international development agenda. Meeting graduation eligibility is a major goal of the Istanbul Plan of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 2011-2020 (IPoA). But as countries? concerns about graduation persist, the potential for additional tension has widened, particularly now that an increasing number of LDCs approach graduation. Countries? reservations are centred on the potential negative impact that the withdrawal of LDC-specific measures can cause to their development and to the achievement of sustainable development goals as LDC-specific support is withdrawn. Another concern manifested by the LDCs… Download
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No. 4 - The inadequacy of mechanisms to help channel capital and know-how to SMEs

by Kori Udovicki  One factor holding back the implementation of the SDGs is the absence of better mechanisms to help channel globally available capital and know-how to support the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It is well-known that SMEs are an important generator of employment and innovation, and significant efforts are invested in helping them overcome their limitations. However, as historically development has come through the conquest of technologies with ever-larger increasing returns to scale, SMEs have generally been only able to complement, rather than independently contribute, to a country?s development. Technology today may be changing this in more than… Download
No. 3: Insufficient attention to inequalities and participatory governance

No. 3 - Insufficient attention to inequalities and participatory governance

by Marc Fleurbaey  The 2030 Agenda is an impressive wish list which covers all the main issues that need to be tackled in our time. In particular, it adds the crucial sustainability dimension to the poverty eradication goals of the millennium. But it is not sailing smoothly toward success and one can be pessimistic about many goals in the SDG list. For some, this is partly due to inertia. For instance, it takes time to build up school infrastructures and prop up enrollment in secondary education. But there is a deeper flaw in the SDG architecture. To understand the problem, I'd like to refer to the first report of the International Panel on Social Progress (Rethinking Society for the… Download