Development cooperation

The impact of graduation on technical and financial cooperation is naturally a concern for many countries. In practice, it depends on how a country’s main development partners consider the LDC category, on the extent to which a graduating country takes advantage of LDC-specific instruments, and what kind of support is in place after graduation. Although commitments have been made internationally regarding official development assistance (ODA) to the LDC category, many technical and financial cooperation programmes are neither exclusively nor primarily determined by LDC status. The volume and type of assistance are usually determined based on a combination of factors related to recipients’ income level, creditworthiness, population size, needs, and vulnerabilities; partners’ policies and priorities; competing demands; and the broader international context. In the case of bilateral cooperation, geographic proximity and cultural and historical ties often play an important role. This section reviews (i) how the most important development partners for the five countries take (or do not take) the LDC category into account in the determination of their resource allocation or type of support provided, and the expected consequences of LDC graduation on operations in or resource allocation to the five countries (sections 3.2 and 3.3); and (ii) how the five countries have used the LDC-specific instruments. Based on this, Section 3.4 summarizes the expected consequences of graduation on development cooperation in each of the five countries.

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