Committee for Development Policy (CDP)

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

This new edition contains updates to LDC criteria and procedures and new information on “smooth transition” provisions for countries graduating from the LDC category.

On 10 November, the CDP provided updates on its recent work and launch the LDC Handbook

Fellowship established in the honor of Stephan Klasen, CDP member and leader of the CDP subgroup on LDCs

Why are productive capacities important for the development process in vulnerable economies?

First ever LDC Future Forum to tackle the unprecedented confluence of the COVID-19, climate, and economic crises

Mariana Mazzucato gave keynote address

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

The general preliminary conclusion is that the impacts on development cooperation will be relatively small, as most development partners do not rely on whether or not a country is an LDC as a primary determinant of their assistance.