The Committee for Development Policy (CDP; Spanish: ''Comité de Políticas de Desarrollo'', CPD) is a subsidiary body of the
United Nations Economic and Social Council
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized ...
(ECOSOC). The task of the CDP is to provide independent advice to the Council on development policy issues. The Committee is also responsible for deciding which countries can be considered
least developed countries
The least developed countries (LDCs) are developing countries listed by the United Nations that exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development. The concept of LDCs originated in the late 1960s and the first group of LDCs was listed b ...
(LDCs).
The Committee has 24 members, nominated in their personal capacity by the United Nations Secretary-General and appointed by ECOSOC for a period of three years.
Th
Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy in the
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Econ ...
, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, provides substantive and administrative assistance to the Committee.
Membership
The last three-year term began on 1 January 2019. Members for the period from 2019 to 2021 are:
*
Adriana Abdenur (Brazil)
*
Debapriya Bhattacharya (Bangladesh)
*
Winnie Byanyima (Uganda)
*
Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang (; ; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean economist and academic. Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990–2021 before becoming pro ...
(Republic of Korea)
*
Diane Elson (United Kingdom)
*
Marc Fleurbaey (France)
*
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Japan)
*
Kevin Gallagher (United States)
*
Arunabha Ghosh (India)
*
Sen Gong (China)
*
Trudi Hartzenberg (South Africa)
*
Rashid Hassan (Sudan)
*
Stephan Klasen (Germany)
*
Amina Mama (Nigeria)
*
Mariana Mazzucato (Italy)
*
Leticia Merino (Mexico)
*
Jacqueline Musiitwa (Zambia)
*
Keith Nurse (Trinidad and Tobago)
*
José Antonio Ocampo (Colombia)
*
Meg Taylor (Papua New Guinea)
*
Taffere Tesfachew (Ethiopia)
*
Rolph van der Hoeven (Netherlands)
*
Kori Udovicki (Serbia)
*
Natalya Volchkova (Russian Federation)
References
External links
Committee for Development Policy
{{Authority control
United Nations Economic and Social Council
International development organizations