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Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre (tralac), discusses in her article the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and what it means especially for LDCs.

On 21 August 2019, CDP member Professor Ha-Joon Chang delivered the XVI Raúl Prebisch Lecture at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. In his speech he proposed creating a new international economic ord ...

On 16 July 2019, Professor José Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the CDP’s 2019 report to ECOSOC to the Council’s High-Level Segment. Professor Ocampo stressed the CDP’s main messages on the theme of the C ...

On 15 July 2019 Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated as resource person at the session of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) entitled "Four years of VNRs: what have we learned on implementi ...

On 11 July 2019 Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), presented the findings of the CDP analysis of the 2018 Voluntary National Reports in a HLPF side event entitled: “National Reports on the 2030 Agenda: W ...

Development often creates or exacerbates poverty and comes at the expense of environmental integrity, pushing people further behind.  It is particularly important, she stated, to  address the inequalities that create obstacles to the reform of the mechanisms through which people are pushed behind, such as decision-making systems where the most disadvantaged are often unrepresented.

From 4 to 7 June the CDP Secretariat conducted a mission to Lao People's Democratic Republic to: (1) study the potential impacts of the country’s graduation from the LDC category on trade and development cooperation, by holding meetings with government ...

On 6 June 2019 Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee’s Report on it’s 21st Session at the Management Meeting (MM) of ECOSOC's 2019 Management Segment. The CDP’s deliberations on ...

On 30 April, the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) participated in a regional workshop on graduation for least developed countries (LDCs) jointly organized by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacifi ...