SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

On 19 July 2016 Professor Jose Antonia Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's findings on "Expanding productive capacity of least developed countries (LDCs) for achieving the sustainable developement g

CDP Background Paper No. 33 By?Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Antonio Scognamillo The conventional approach to least developed country (LDC) graduation has considered these countries as an undifferentiated group whose problems could b

UK vote to leave the EU adds significant uncertainty to the global economy Prolonged weak global growth poses a challenge to sustainable development India further liberalizes its FDI regime

Presentation on the Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) measurement framework.

This paper aims to draw insights from New Structural Economics by applying its practical policy tool ? the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF) ? to least developed countries (LDCs) with a special focus on the case of Uganda.

New York, 19?21 October

Economic growth, environmental sustainability and human development in the Solomon Islands have lagged much of the Pacific region since independence in 1978. Trade contributes insufficiently to development, partly because of the dominance of the logging industry but also due to the lack of emphasis on building productive capacities with a view to economic transformation toward higher productivity activities.

World gross product projected to expand by just 2.4 per cent in 2016 Forthcoming referendum on EU membership has increased financial market volatility in the United Kingdom Ongoing fiscal adjustment in Africa, the CIS, Latin America and Western Asia continues to constrain prospects

Statement by Prof Sakiko Fukuda-Parr at Coordination and Management Meeting of the 2016 session of the ECOSOC, 1 June 2016