The 2023 joint meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Economic and Financial Committee of the General Assembly (Second Committee) will focus on the opportunities, challenges, and key policies needed to exploit the current opportunities to improve commodity-dependent countries’ position in international markets, which will serve as a step for financing economic development and achieving the SDGs.
After the SDG Summit, and towards a potential Fourth Conference on Financing for Development, the urgency of exploring innovative solutions and enabling policies to achieve the SDGs is clear. Participants will discuss the main barriers faced by these countries, strategies to address the commodity-dependency issue, opportunities for leveraging commodities revenues, policy recommendations, and the role of the main stakeholders in optimizing benefits for developing countries.