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"The challenges of graduating from LDC status"
A discussion lead by H.E. Dr. Victor Borges, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde.
from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Room G, OECD Headquarters, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris
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"Strategic Approaches to Cluster-based Industrial Development"
A discussion lead by Mr. Keijiro Otsuka, Professorial Fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development and Professor at the National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, both in Tokyo.
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Room 256 (Franqueville), OECD Headquarters, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
19 April Seminar: "The challenges of graduating from LDC status"
Countries with LDC status, i.e., those with a population below 75 million and judged by the UN ECOSOC’s Committee for Development Policy (CDP) to meet two of the following three criteria -- low income, weak human assets and high economic vulnerability – are accorded special treatment by development partners. The benefits include preferential market access, special treatment regarding World Trade Organisation-related obligations, ODA and other forms of development financing, as well as technical co-operation and other forms of assistance.
Every three years the CDP undertakes a review of the LDC list in order to consider possible additions or removals, these latter being referred to as qualifying to "graduate" from LDC status. It was decided in 2004 that Cape Verde would be ready to graduate in December 2007 since, despite remaining economically highly vulnerable, its income per capita and human assets were no longer of LDC levels.
In addition to reviewing the recent debate on the wisdom of graduating economically vulnerable small-island developing states, in which the case of Cape Verde has been at the core, Dr. Borges will set out the range of challenges that graduation raises both for a country’s economic and political decision makers as well as for its partners in OECD countries.
Background documents:
- Report of the UN Committee for Development Policy on its sixth session
- UN Resolution on Smooth transition strategy for countries graduating from the list of least developed countries
- Comment gérer ensemble la graduation du Cap Vert (in French only)
- Stratégie de sortie du Cap Vert de la catégorie des pays les moins avancés (in French only)
- Formulating a smooth transition strategy for countries graduating from least developed country status (UN ECOSOC report)
- Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its resumed substantive session of 2004
- Committee for Development Policy. Report on the eighth session (20-24 March 2006)
25 April Seminar: "Strategic Approaches to Cluster-based Industrial Development"
Associate editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change and a former board member of the Japanese Economics Association, Mr. Otsuka is the author of over 80 articles on the economics of development, agriculture and the environment, all published in leading journals. The volume “Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model”, which he co-wrote with Tetsushi Sonobe, was published last year by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to the case studies conducted for that publication, Mr. Otsuka’s presentation will draw on a series of case studies subsequently conducted in Africa.
We attach here a web-link to his recent paper "Cluster-based Industrial Development: A View from East Asia"
For more information, please contact Ms. Sandra Lloyd by e-mail at Sandra.Lloyd@oecd.org.
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