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« Structural change for graduation: reducing structural vulnerability » Patrick Guillaumont Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International FERDI Ministerial Meeting of Asia-Pacific LDCs on Graduation and Post-2015 Development Agenda Session 3: the role of productive capacity building. Structural transformation and human assets for graduation 16 December 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal

2 From structural transformation to graduation LDCs are designed as poor countries facing structural handicaps to development Graduation involves a capacity to overcome these structural handicaps, assessed through specific criteria This needs a structural transformation, likely to lead to a sustainable development With IPoA, graduation has become an agreed goal, instead of being seen mainly as a risk Meeting graduation criteria is expected to reflect a structural change and it so as far as the indicators reflect structural handicaps to development

Enhancing human assets, reducing vulnerability: a double possible impact on graduation Eligibility to graduation is assessed through the criteria of income pc, human capital and structural vulnerability (GNIpc, HAI, EVI) used for inclusion into the category Improvement of EVI, and HAI as well, first makes corresponding graduation criteria more likely to be met It is also a major factor of a more rapid growth, making the GNIpc criterion too more likely to be met But not all the structural changes leading to a reduction of structural handicaps result in a change of EVI (and HAI)

Structural reduction of vulnerability may operate through or besides the EVI components Through a long term action on components: - exposure components, by diversification of exports, increase of the share of value added from industry and services,… - shock components: by changing the pattern of exports to make them more stable, adopting more resistant seeds to make the agricultural production less unstable, early warning systems resilience to minimize the number of people affected by natural disasters,… Besides the components: - by regional integration, infrastructure improvement, … - and all the measures contributing increase structural resilience …

5 The graduation criteria in brief: a test of overcoming structural handicaps to growth Traditional criteria: 2 out of the 3 inclusion criteria (GNIpc, HAI, EVI) to no longer be met, GNI inclusion criterion is the LIC threshold, HAI and EVI ones were relative to a reference group (beyond a margin: 20% for GNI, 10% for HAI and EVI) Alternative 2006 criterion: GNIpc above twice the ordinary graduation threshold (240% of the inclusion threshold) Low HAI, High EVI reflect structural handicaps, increasing HAI, and/or a decreasing EVI evidence favourable structural change likely to lead to sustained growth a GNIpc more than twice the LI threshold reflects a capacity to overcome the structural handicaps

Sources of graduation Traditional double criteria: - the couple GNIpc + HAI has been the main source of graduation during the last 10 years (CV, Maldives, Samoa) - quite lower prospects for the future (Solomon Islands) Income-only criterion (as first implemented for Eq. Gu.): - already reached by Angola + several Asia-Pacific LDCs (Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Timor Leste, Bhutan) - likely to be the main source in this decade, - but often associated with meeting the HAI criterion Little prospect of graduation with regard to the EVI criterion: - only possible for Nepal and Bangladesh, - leading to eligibility if also combined with additionnal HAI improvement What is then the impact of structural change on graduation?

Why graduation prospects lag behind the IPoA goal of halving the number of LDCs meeting the graduation criteria by 2020, in spite of (structural) progress Asymmetry of criteria: at the 2012 review, 26 out of 49 LDCs did no longer meet the 3 complementary inclusion criteria, and all of the 13 Asia-Pacific LDCs (except Afghanistan) Length of the graduation process (double triennial eligibility, then 3 year delay after GA endorsement = at least 6 years after 1st eligibility) Relative character of the HAI and EVI criteria (untill 2012): general improvement did not change the ranks in the reference group Present prospects according present criteria: no more than 10 countries likely to have met the criteria by 2021, of which 2 already graduated, all but Angola in Asia-Pacific

When improving the position EVI (or HAI) with respect to the thresholds does not mean structural transformation The thresholds may have moved with the changes in the reference groups (will be no longer true, will change mainly for HAI) The composition and/or calculation of the indices may have changed: impact of the change in EVI between 2009 and 2006 with the addition of an « environment component » (LECZ) with a weight taken from that of the smallness of population size Increase of EVI in Bangladesh, Cambodia, decrease in PDR Lao, Bhutan, Nepal (graphs), without really reflecting a negative/positive structural change …………………..

Relative evolution of Bangladesh’s position with respect to the graduation and inclusion thresholds over the five last triennial reviews

Relative evolution of Cambodia’s position with respect to the graduation and inclusion thresholds over the five last triennial reviews

Relative evolution of Laos’ position with respect to the graduation and inclusion thresholds over the five last triennial reviews

Relative evolution of Kiribati’s position with respect to the graduation and inclusion thresholds over the five last triennial reviews

When improving the position EVI (or HAI) with respect to the thresholds does not mean structural transformation ………………….. Decrease of structural vulnerability can only be assessed from indices calculated with unchanged definitions (graphs and Ferdi calculations)

Positions of Asia Pacific LDCs with regard to EVI 2012 and EVI 2000 Incl usi on Gra dua tio n Graduation 2012 Inclusion degree line

Positions of Asia Pacific LDCs with regard to EVI 2012 and to EVI 2006 both calculated according to 2006 method Incl usi on Gra dua tio n Graduation 2012 Inclusion degree line

Lessons from retrospective series from 2000 to 2011: decrease in EVI calculated from an unchanged definition (the 2012 one) Stronger decreases, observed -from an initially high level: Lao PDR (-18), Cambodia (-14), Yemen (-12) Vanuatu (-10), Tuvalu (-10), Samoa (-7) Moderate decreases, observed - either from a high level: Solomon Islands (-3), Kiribati (-3), - or from a low level: Bangladesh (-3) No decrease or increase, observed - either from a moderate level: Bhutan (- 0.5) - or from a rather low level: Afghanistan (+ 1.5), Myanmar (+2.5) Lack of retrospective data: Timor Leste (high present level) Also done from the 2006 definition, with close results But the 2012 definition with the new component LECZ, moving slowly, and reducing the weight of (increasing) population slows down the decline of EVI…and the apparent impact of structural change

Structural transformation and environment Vulnerability to climate change is indeed an obstacle to sustained development : should it be taken into account in the criteria for the identification of LDCs or treated separately through a specific index? Longer time horizon and change not reflecting a structural transformation (at least as adaptation is not assessed) Choice made by the CDP to include an « environment component », but the simple inclusion of the LECZ index results in a biaised change of EVI: minoring vulnerability in landlocked and arid countries (Sahel countries), as well as in a small moutainous island (Vanuatu), and in countries threatened by other flooding than the sea level rise, such as GLOF and other flooding in Bhutan and Nepal A bias that could be easily within the present EVI composition

Back to the category rationale: addressing structural handicaps Better performance of LDCs in HAI improvement than in EVI, with a determinant impact of HAI on graduation (in spite of a modest relation with employment generation), lag in reduction of structural vulnerability Structural transformation is an integrated process involving both human assets and vulnerability: human capabilities are a crucial and structural factor of resilience, structural vulnerability remains a challenge Present treatment too dichotomic: referring to a structural handicap index, averaging EVI and (low) HAI, are supposed to evidence favourable structural transformation would give a better criterion for graduation, and a better index to assess positive structural transformation Moreover it would make (or have maid) easier to meet the graduation criteria for countries wishing to graduate, more difficult for those wishing to avoid graduation…

Back to the category rationale: addressing structural handicaps Better performance of LDCs in HAI improvement than in EVI, with a determinant impact of HAI on graduation (in spite of a modest relation with employment generation), lag in reduction of structural vulnerability Structural transformation is an integrated process involving both human assets and vulnerability: human capabilities are a crucial and structural factor of resilience, structural vulnerability remains a challenge Present treatment too dichotomic: referring to a structural handicap index, averaging EVI and (low) HAI, are supposed to evidence favourable structural transformation would give a better criterion for graduation, and a better index to assess positive structural transformation Moreover it would make (or have maid) easier to meet the graduation criteria for countries wishing to graduate, more difficult for those wishing to avoid graduation…

Back to the category rationale: addressing structural handicaps Better performance of LDCs in HAI improvement than in EVI, with a determinant impact of HAI on graduation (in spite of a modest relation with employment generation), lag in reduction of structural vulnerability Structural transformation is an integrated process involving both human assets and vulnerability: human capabilities are a crucial and structural factor of resilience, structural vulnerability remains a challenge Present treatment too dichotomic: referring to a structural handicap index, averaging EVI and (low) HAI, are supposed to evidence favourable structural transformation would give a better criterion for graduation, and a better index to assess positive structural transformation Moreover it would make (or have maid) easier to meet the graduation criteria for countries wishing to graduate, more difficult for those wishing to avoid graduation…

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