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	LDC Sustainable Graduation Support Facility - Note December 2021 The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in its 2019 plenary recommended that capacity development work be undertaken in support of graduating and graduated countries and requested its secretariat, as part of its capacity development activities and in close collaboration with other relevant Uni	15 December 2021
	Handbook on the LDC Category, 2021 edition [THE HANDBOOK ON THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRY CATEGORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.	10 November 2021
	LDC Ministerial Declaration for the Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference 2021 - Chad, on behalf of the LDC Group LDC Ministerial Declaration for the Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference 2021, including priorities for LDCs.	27 October 2021
	A Smooth Transition Package in Favour of Members Graduating from the LDC Category (WTO) - Communication from Chad on Behalf of the LDC Group Communication from Chad on Behalf of the LDC Group. General Council.	18 October 2021
	Committee for Development Policy (CDP) official reports and related ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions In this link you will find all CDP reports, including the results of triennial reviews (please see reports for 2021, 2018, 2015, 2012, etc.); ECOSOC resolutions on the reports (on the years of triennial reviews these resolutions contain the endorsements, when applicable, of CDP recommendations for g	01 October 2021
	Policy Space for Building Production Capabilities in the Pharmaceuticals Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evidence from Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 051) Over the past four decades Bangladesh has built enough domestic productive capacity in the pharmaceuticals and related industries to generate manufacturing capacity and employment to provide access to medicines in the country and to become a modest exporter of medicines as well.	30 September 2021
	Potential impacts of LDC graduation on development cooperation in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal, and Zambia: Preliminary assessment When a country leaves (“graduates” from) the least developed countries (LDC) category, there is often concern about the impacts on the support it will receive from the international community.	21 September 2021
	Implementation, effectiveness and added value of smooth transition measures and graduation support - Report of the Secretary-General The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 73/242, by which the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its seventy-sixth session a progress report on the implementation, effectiveness and added value of smooth transition measures covering both gradu	06 August 2021
	South-South Ideas - Least Developed Country Graduation: Can South-South Cooperation Have a Positive Impact on Trade and Finance? UNOSSC/UNDP and UNDP - Rahman, Bhattacharya Twelve LDCs are set to graduate over the next few years.	31 July 2021
	The road to LDC graduation in Timor-Leste The Covid-19 crisis hit Timor-Leste harder than many countries. (...) While the country remains an LDC the government should also use existing LDC-specific funds and facilities as fully as possible.	30 June 2021