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	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
	UNDESA Ex ante assessments of the impacts of graduation from the LDC category Assessments of potential impacts of graduation from the LDC category, prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) for the Committee for Development Policy.	27 February 2021
	Towards a Smooth Transition Strategy for Bhutan - UNCTAD This report is intended to propose key elements for consideration by the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGB), its development and trading partners and other interested stakeholders as the country seeks to develop a national smooth-transition strategy.	01 January 2021
	Impact of COVID-19 and LDC Graduation Webinar for the WTO LDC Group The WTO LDC Group held a webinar on 8 December 2020 to discuss the trade and health impacts of COVID-19 on the LDCs that are on the path of graduation.	08 December 2020
	Health Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Graduating LDCs The report builds on the analysis carried out in the report "Trade impacts of LDC graduation" issued by WTO in May 2020. It was prepared by Pascale R. Leroueil, The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, under the auspices of the EIF-WTO Project on LDC Graduation	01 December 2020
	Trade Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Graduating LDCs - WTO Secretariat and EIF The report builds on the analysis carried out in the report "Trade impacts of LDC graduation" issued by WTO in May 2020. It was prepared by Dr. Emily Blanchard, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and Dr.	01 December 2020
	The end of the LDC transition period for pharmaceutical products under the TRIPS Agreement upon LDC graduation - Implications for Bangladesh "The objective of the report is to assess the impact of implementing patent protection for pharmaceutical products upon the graduation from LDC status on the further growth of the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh and the capacity of the government to ensure access to quality affordable med	30 November 2020