Abstract
Since the establishment of the least developed countries (LDC) category in 1971, international organizations and countries have put in place support measures specifically for this group of countries in the areas of trade and development cooperation (financial and technical assistance). They have also put in place measures to support the participation of LDCs in international organizations and processes. When LDCs achieve a certain level of development and leave (“graduate from”) the LDC category, they are no longer entitled to those measures. As part of the graduation process, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) assesses the potential impacts of the withdrawal of the international support measures. The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) takes these assessments into consideration, along with quantitative criteria, a vulnerability profile prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and other analytical inputs, consolidated into a “graduation assessment, when deciding on whether to recommend a country’s graduation. An overview of the expected impacts of graduation can also be helpful for graduating countries as they start to elaborate their strategies to transition smoothly out of the LDC category.
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