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	Towards a resilience-building framework for monitoring countries graduating and graduated from the Least Developed Country category (CDP Background Paper No. 51) This paper provides conceptual inputs on a potential bi-modal monitoring framework for the Least Developed Country (LDC) category.	01 June 2021
	The Social Costs of Graduating from Least Developed Country Status: Analyzing the impact of increased protection on insulin prices in Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 038) In 2021, the 51吃瓜 Committee on Development Policy will consider whether Bangladesh should graduate from ‘least developed country’ (LDC) status.	31 May 2021
	Summary of the webinar on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing sector, 7 May 2021 - WTO The WTO, in cooperation with ITC, UNCTAD and UNDESA, organized a webinar on 7 May 2021. It kicked off an inter-agency collaboration to undertake an in-depth sectoral study on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector.	07 May 2021
	Smooth transition for graduating LDCs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 4 May 2021. Daniel Gay. It is widely accepted that least developed countries (LDCs) leaving the category need special measures to smooth the transition. The next graduates include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR and Solomon Islands, but others will soon follow.	04 May 2021
	Smooth Transition Strategy Guidance Note This STS guidance note, developed by UNDESA as the CDP Secretariat, is in response to the recommendations of the General Assembly and the follow-up actions proposed by the CDP on strengthening smooth transition measures and dedicated capacity building to help graduating and graduated countries prepa	03 May 2021
	Amid cyclones and COVID-19, Vanuatu makes bold decision to graduate from ‘least developed country’ category - Violeta Gonzalez Behar and Michelle Kovacevic for OECD Development matters On 4 December 2020, Vanuatu shed its official classification as one of the world’s least developed countries (LDC). This significant milestone – called ‘graduation’ – is something that only five other countries have managed to achieve in the last 40 years.	30 April 2021
	Committee for Development Policy report 2021 The present report contains the main findings and recommendations of the Committee for Development Policy at its twenty-third session.	22 April 2021
	Life after LDC Graduation: How is Bangladesh poised for EU GSP+? Debapriya Bhattacharya	21 April 2021
	Timor-Leste to Graduate from LDC Category and Beyond through Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification - Helder Lopes for UNESCAP Since independence in 2002 Timor-Leste has emerged from instability and significant erosion of development gains to successfully graduate from fragility status, meet the least developed country (LDC) graduation per-capita income criterion in 2015 since the country was added to the list of LDC in 200	16 April 2021
	Structural Transformation, LDC Graduation and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Policy Options for Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar, Anisuzzaman Chowdhury for UNESCAP This paper has four objectives.	12 April 2021