SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

The ePing system, an SPS and TBT notification alert system developed by UN DESA in cooperation with the WTO and ITC, is officially launched on 8 November 2016 at the WTO, by UN Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in UN DESA Lenni Montiel, WTO Deputy Director General Karl Brauner and the Executive Director of ITC Arancha Gonz?lez.

From 24 to 27 October 2016, an UN expert team, comprising of the CDP, UNDP, UNCTAD and OHRLLS, conducted a joint mission in Luanda, Angola, to provide support to the Government of Angola on the graduation from the LDC category. The UN team held consu

Government policymakers from 16 least developed countries (LDCs) and one graduate, Samoa, will gather in Beijing, China, from 10 to 12 November 2016 to discuss strategies needed to successfully graduate from LDC status and to achieve the Sustainable

CDP Policy Review No. 5 By Keith Nurse The paper reviews the provisions within the WTO multilateral trade regime which impact on the policy space for LDCs which are interested in pursuing industrial policies as latecomers. It find

CDP Policy Review No. 4 By Stephan Klasen, Inmaculada Mart?nez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann and Matthias Bruckner The paper investigates the effectiveness of trade preferences for LDCs. It confirms that overall trade preference

CDP Policy Review No. 3 By Tea Petrin The paper overviews the evidence of good governance institutional reform agenda on the development outcomes of LDCs. For building development governance capacity in LDC for achieving sustainabl

CDP Policy Review No. 2 By Keun Lee The paper discusses two ways of building productive capacity in LDCs: the manufacture of products to foreign buyers? specifications, and the integration of resource-based sectors into global valu

CDP Policy Review No. 1 By Jos? Antonio Alonso The paper looks into the origins of Aid for Trade (AfT) and its objective of assisting developing countries to increase exports of goods and services and integrate into the multilatera

On the 13th and 14th of October 2016, the Development Strategy and Policy Analysis (DSP) Unit will hold the First E