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CDP Issue Brief No 2: Eradicating poverty effectively: concise, strategic data to tackle the greatest global challenge

In this second CDP Issue Brief, Sabina Alkire discusses the potential of data to catalyze poverty eradication and explains the importance of multidimensional poverty measures alongside monetary measures. She makes five pragmatic recommendations for the Second World Summit on Social Development (WSSD2) that would empower actors, improve the cost-effectiveness of interventions and make progress visible.
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CDP Issue Brief No 1: Challenges to global trade growth in 2025

In the first number of the new CDP Issue Brief Series, Carlos Lopes looks at the challenges confronting global trade in 2025. The current trade landscape presents an increasingly complex and uncertain picture. A succession of shocks over the past 15 years has profoundly altered global trade dynamics, exposing vulnerabilities in supply chains, shifted policy priorities, and fueling geopolitical frictions. Addressing these challenges requires coordinated policy responses and a renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation to ensure inclusive economic growth.
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CDP Plenary 2025

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) held its 27th Plenary meeting from 24 to 28 February at UN Headquarters in New York. H.E. Mr. Robert Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations and President of ECOSOC, and Mr. Li Jinhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, addressed the CDP members during the opening session. The Committee addressed several issues related to “new development contexts and pathways”, focusing on financing for development, convergence in human and social development and trade as engine for sustainable development. The CDP also discussed challenges faced by least developed countries (LDCs) in the current external environment,…
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Report of the CDP (E/2025/33, Supplement No. 13) Opening Statement of H.E. Mr. Robert Rae Opening Statement of Mr. Li Jinhua

2024 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA Resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2024/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español CDP excerpts on the report by theme Innovation ecosystems for development, structural change and equity 2024 triennial review of the list of least developed countries Enhanced monitoring of countries that are graduating or have graduated from the list of least developed countries Graduation – the global context ECOSOC resolution (E/RES/2024/7) on the Report of the Committee for Development Policy
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español GA resolution (A/RES/79/230) on the Graduation of Cambodia and Senegal from the least developed country category
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CDP Plenary 2024

CDP Plenary 2024

Agenda Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2024/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) held its 26th Plenary meeting from 4 to 8 March at UN Headquarters in New York. H.E. Mr. Robert Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations and Vice-President of ECOSOC, and Mr. Li Jinhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, addressed the CDP members during the opening session. The Committee addressed several issues related to the least developed countries (LDC) category, as well as the issue of innovation ecosystems for development, structural transformation and equity, as…
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A globally just transition: Perspectives from the Committee for Development Policy

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. It includes the central messages of the debates on just transition during the CDP’s 2023 plenary meeting, on which the Committee reported to the Economic and Social Council, as well as pieces, individually authored and selected by CDP members, on ecologically sustainable industrialisation, breaking fossil fuel dependency, the potential and risks of carbon border adjustment mechanisms, the special challenges of middle-income countries (MICs) in securing a just transition; solutions…
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Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries

Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries

CDP Background Paper No. 59 By Matthias Bruckner Export concentration has long been recognized as a key indicator of the development progress of least developed countries (LDCs). This paper presents the refined export concentration index recently included in the criteria used for identifying LDCs. The refined index is a Theil index that covers both concentration in the basket of exported products and concentration in the set of export markets, thereby capturing two dimensions of vulnerability due to undiversified export structures. The paper shows that relative to other developing countries, LDCs are less diversified both in terms of export products and export markets, contributing to their… Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries
2023 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

2023 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

Development cooperation with middle-income countries (A/78/224)
中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (A/78/506)
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Potential impacts of LDC graduation: Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia

When a country leaves (graduates from) the least developed countries (LDC) category, it ceases to benefit from international support measures that are exclusive to LDCs (in some cases, these measures are available for a set period after graduation, known as a smooth transition period). This Policy Note provides an overview of the expected impacts of the withdrawal of LDC-specific international support measures in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia.  These countries met the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)s graduation thresholds for the first time in 2021 and, according to the established procedures will be assessed again in 2024, when they may be recommended for… English French
CDP Plenary 2023

CDP Plenary 2023

Date: 20 - 24 February 2023
Place: UNHQ, New York, USA Documents Agenda Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2023/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Opening Statements Statement by Mr. Li Jinhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Open Session - The just transition debate: ambition meets reality 21 February 2023, 1:15 - 2:45 PM, Conference Room 7, UNHQ, New York Link to the event page The recording of the event can be watched at: UN Web TV Interactive Session with ECOSOC 24 February 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, ECOSOC Chamber, UNHQ, New York Opening remarks by HE. Ambassador Lachezara Stoeva, President…