CDP News

CDP Issue Brief No 1: Challenges to global trade growth in 2025, by Carlos Lopes
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.
Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries
This short paper briefly describes the methodology of this new index and presents some empirical results. It also presents an extension that covers both export and import concentration.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Promise of a Transformative Agenda
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
The need to extend the WTO TRIPS pharmaceuticals transition period for LDCs in the COVID-19 era: Evidence from Bangladesh
This policy brief synthesizes recent research, showing that Bangladesh?s vital pharmaceutical industry would be threatened if the country had to adhere fully to WTO rules upon graduation from LDC status.