CDP News and events | Economic Analysis and Policy Division

Innovation ecosystems: making intellectual property work for development, equity and structural change

CDP members addressed intellectual property aspects of innovation ecosystems and how they can support development, equity and structural change

CDP Chair at ECOSOC Coordination Segment

Statements on the CDP's work on just transition, innovation ecosystems for development, structural change and equity, and VNRs

Bhutan graduates from LDC status

Bhutan achieves a milestone: graduation from the LDC category

Briefing to ECOSOC on the ongoing work of the CDP

CDP briefing to ECOSOC members on its work on inputs to the ECOSOC theme and preparation of the 2024 triennial review of the list of LDCs

Measuring export concentration for identifying least developed countries, by Matthias Bruckner (CDP Background Paper No. 59)

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.

GA resolution on postponement of Solomon Islands graduation from the LDC category

Solomon Islands is now scheduled to graduate on 13 December 2027

The raw reality of the growing (external) debt crisis: A call to action, by the CDP working group on external debt (CDP Background Paper No. 58)

This paper discusses the escalating external debt distress and financial constraints faced by many least developed countries (LDCs) and other developing countries.

Presentation of the 2023 CDP Report at the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC

CDP Chair presented the central messages of the CDP's report to the High-Level Segment of ECOSOC

2023 HLPF side event: "Strengthening the VNR reports and processes: Recommendations for a new approach"

How can the VNRs be strengthened in content and process to better support an accelerated SDG implementation?