Committee for Development Policy (CDP)

In the context of the disruptions in international trade in 2025, Ha-Joon Chang reflects on why the time is ripe for a New New International Economic Order.

Ahead of WSSD2, Sabina Alkire talks about multidimensional poverty and poverty eradication.

This paper proposes using the existing Global Multidimensional Poverty Index for a global comparison for developing countries.

The Chair of the CDP presented the key messages of the CDP’s 2025 report, stressing the need for strengthened multilateral action to face historical challenges and structural shifts, conveying the CDP's recommendations on poverty measurement ahead of WSSD2, and reporting on the need to improve support to LDCs, including graduating countries.

On 10 June, at its Management Segment, ECOSOC adopted its resolution on the report of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) at its 27th session.

In the second CDP Issue Brief, Sabina Alkire discusses the potential of data for poverty eradication and the opportunities for WSSD2 to act on that potential.

The report addresses new contexts and pathways for development, financing for development, trade as engine for sustainable development, and human and social development. It also addresses challenges faced by LDCs, proposals to strengthen the LDC graduation framework; and the monitoring of countries that are graduating or have recently graduated from the LDC category.

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2025/33, Supplement No. 13)

Reports for Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands