Report of the Committee for Development Policy on Its 20th Session

E/RES/2018/27View PDF

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A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18a Sustainable development, published in 2018.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	E/RES/2026/6	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 28th session	—	–
2025	E/RES/2025/2	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 27th session	1,535	–
2024	E/RES/2024/7	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 26th session	1,919	–
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2022	E/RES/2022/8	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 24th session	1,168	–

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Bhutan Climate Change Graduation Kiribati Least Developed Countries Sao Tome and Principe Solomon Islands Tuvalu

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Takes note of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its twentieth session;³

³Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 13 (E/2018/33).

Notes the work done by the Committee on (a) leaving no one behind, in accordance with the theme of the high-level segment of the 2018 session of the Economic and Social Council, (b) the triennial review of the list of least developed countries, (c) monitoring the development progress of countries graduating and graduated from the list of least developed countries, (d) improved assistance for graduating least developed countries and (e) the voluntary national reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;⁴

⁴General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Requests the Committee, at its twenty-first session, to examine and make recommendations on the annual theme of the 2019 session of the Council;

Also requests the Committee to monitor the development progress of countries graduating and graduated from the category of least developed countries, in accordance with paragraph 21 of General Assembly resolution 67/221;

Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that Bhutan be graduated from the list of least developed countries, notes that the Committee finds reasonable the request by Bhutan to align the effective graduation date with the end of the country’s twelfth national development plan in 2023, and recommends that the General Assembly take note of that recommendation and the finding;

Also endorses the recommendation of the Committee that Solomon Islands be graduated from the list of least developed countries, and recommends that the General Assembly take note of that recommendation;

Recalls the recognition in the Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020⁵ of the importance of the reviews by the Committee of the graduation criteria for the least developed countries, and the recommendation that the reviews be comprehensive, taking into account all aspects of the evolving international development context, including relevant agendas, and in this regard takes note of the decision of the Committee to implement a multi-year work programme for a comprehensive review of the least developed country criteria, and looks forward to its outcome;

⁵General Assembly resolution 70/294, annex.

Takes note of the recommendation of the Committee that a category of countries facing extreme vulnerability to climate change and other environmental shocks be created, and decides not to endorse that recommendation;

Also takes note of the recommendation of the Committee that Kiribati be placed in a category of countries facing extreme vulnerability to climate change and other environmental shocks, and decides not to endorse that recommendation, and further takes note of the recommendation of the Committee that Kiribati be graduated from the list of least developed countries, and decides to defer the consideration of that recommendation to no later than 2021;

Further takes note of the recommendation of the Committee that Tuvalu be placed in a category of countries facing extreme vulnerability to climate change and other environmental shocks, and decides not to endorse that recommendation, and recalls the recommendation of the Committee that Tuvalu be graduated from the list of least developed countries, and decides to defer the consideration of that recommendation to no later than 2021;

Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that Sao Tome and Principe be graduated from the list of least developed countries, notes that the Committee finds reasonable the request by Sao Tome and Principe to postpone its effective graduation date to 2024, so as to enable it to enact necessary internal reforms and align its transition strategy with its national development plan, and recommends that the General Assembly take note of that recommendation and the finding;

Notes that, as part of the existing procedures, all least developed countries, including those not yet graduated, will be included in the 2021 triennial review of the least developed country category;

Requests the entities of the United Nations development system to provide assistance to graduating countries in the formulation and implementation of their national transition strategies and to consider country-specific support for graduated countries for a fixed period of time and in a predictable manner;

Acknowledges with satisfaction the contributions made by the Committee to the various aspects of the programme of work of the Council, reiterates its invitation for increased interaction between the Council and the Committee, and encourages the Chair and, as necessary, other members of the Committee to continue that practice, as specified in Council resolution 2011/20 of 27 July 2011, within existing resources and as appropriate.

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