Sustainable Development Goals

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Blog Post
Financing Development: A “Common but Differentiated” Path to 0.7%
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
September 25, 2019
Ministers are gathering at the UN this week to discuss the financing needs to meet the Global Goals—with the challenge that resources will clearly fall short, not least because most high-income countries are still failing to meet their financial commitments. We reviewed the...
Blog Post
UNGA 2019: A Development Dispatch from New York
Sean Bartlett
September 24, 2019
On the sidelines of the 74th annual proceedings of the UN General Assembly, one recurring idea caught my attention: interconnectedness.
POLICY PAPERS
Marginal, Not Transformational: Development Finance Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals
Charles Kenny
September 24, 2019
Development finance institutions have positioned themselves as key agencies to help the world meet the Sustainable Development Goals. It is doubtful that they can deliver. This paper outlines the challenges facing DFIs in achieving (anywhere near) such an expansion in their impact, particularly in i...
Blog Post
Is the New Model IFC a Good Deal for IDA Countries?
Charles Kenny
September 24, 2019
For much of the last decade, the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has delivered a share of its profits as grants to the World Bank Group’s soft lending arm for governments, the International Development Association (IDA). In the last couple of...
Blog Post
More than the Sum of their Parts: How an ID, a Phone, and a Bank Account Can Help Achieve the SDGs
Kyle Navis et al.
September 23, 2019
As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, global leaders will be taking stock of their countries’ progress towards the SDGs and mapping out where they still have to go. Our research has shown that, together, financial accounts, ID, and mobile phones can facilitate a wide variety ...
Vanessa Fajans-Turner et al.
September 23, 2019

When world leaders meet at the United Nations on September 26 to review progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one issue on the agenda will be whether the world is on track to mobilize the necessary funding.

Right now, we are nowhere near moving from the billions to trillions of dollars needed to make the SDGs a reality by 2030. And on current plans, we are unlikely to do so. Does that mean we should scale down our ambitions, or can we do a better job of raising the money that’s needed?

Is there any hope for mobilizing the trillions needed for the SDGs? We at CGD put that question to four experts: Vanessa Fajans-Turner of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Alexia Latortue of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Mark Plant and Vijaya Ramachandran of CGD. We want to hear from you too—because we all have a vested interest in ensuring the SDGs don’t become unfulfilled aspirations.

Blog Post
Financing Options for Low-Income Countries
Masood Ahmed
April 10, 2019
The global narrative on development finance centers on enabling all countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This cascades into a set of questions about how much financing is needed, how it should be mobilized, and how it will be used. While the SDGs motivate action and...