This article connects the work that underpinned the Agenda?s emergence with the continuing challenges of its implementation as a process of norm making and norm evolution
Committee for Development Policy (CDP)

Towards a New International Economic Order (A/77/214)

2022 Monitoring Reports for Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR, Nepal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

The 24th Session of the CDP Plenary was held from 21-25 February 2022 in virtual format.

This new edition contains updates to LDC criteria and procedures and new information on smooth transition provisions for countries graduating from the LDC category and is available in English, French and Portuguese

Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (A/76/310)

This paper provides conceptual inputs on a potential bi-modal monitoring framework for the LDC category

While least developed countries have up to now successful to limit direct health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the socio-economic fallout has been extremely hard.