Workshop on Productive Capacity and LDC Graduation

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 Development Goals (SDGs).

The workshop is organized by the Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University in collaboration with the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat and co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat.

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