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There is a broad consensus that achieving the SDGs and addressing the costs of climate change in developing countries will require substantial financial resources. In this blog post, we argue that while mobilizing additional financing is challenging, effectively absorbing and utilizing these additio...

The Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF have come to an end. It was a jam-packed array of official meetings, private roundtables, bilateral engagements, civil society forums, and many side events covering a myriad of issues with a range of stakeholders. In the end, it can be difficult to sort ...

In a modest win for multilateralism, 193 countries approved the Pact for the Future just ahead of the UN General Assembly. Unfortunately, the Pact suffers from two fatal flaws: the first is the disconnect between its vision and current events and the second is the disconnect between its signatories’...

Advocates are being asked to deliver trillions each year for development—a historically unprecedented amount. It's a historically unprecedented time to be sure, but not one that appears amenable to massive increases in development finance. If advocacy works well when it seeks billions to achieve a g...

Substantial investments are needed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address the climate crisis. Most of these resources will need to be mobilized domestically. We argue that prospects to boost domestic revenue in SSA countries are grim, and future t...

In 2015 the nations of the world agreed at the United Nations on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be reached by 2030. The SDGs are the closest the world has come to a definable and measurable global social contract. The SDGs do not constitute a legally binding contract; there are no pen...

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing global challenges will require a step change in private investment in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Only a small fraction of the trillions in private assets under management are currently directed to EMDEs.

There is no way that poverty can be fully tackled without policies designed to address the multiple disadvantages faced by people due to the combination of ascribed attributes including gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, migration status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). And...

The central role that private investors must play in financing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) investments in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) is now widely understood and acknowledged. The just-published two-volume report of the Independent Experts Group (here and here) to the ...

Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tackling the climate crisis in developing nations demands substantial investments. A recent report commissioned by the G20 estimated that for developing countries (encompassing low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income nations), a...