Sustainable Development Goals

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Finding Cash for Infrastructure in Addis: Blending, Lending and Guarantees in Finance for Development

June 19, 2015
The total scale of incremental investment requirements in infrastructure in developing countries has been estimated at around USD 1 trillion a year, with a range of related studies suggesting numbers between $815 billion to $1.3 trillion. While all such numbers are open to considerable debate, and w...
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How Much Scope for Private and Market Rate Infrastructure Finance at Addis?

June 19, 2015
Meeting the SDG targets for infrastructure in developing countries is going to cost around USD 1 trillion a year. With official development assistance at around $150 billion, other official flows at $27 billion, and investment in infrastructure with private involvement at about $181 billion, it...
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Let’s Dump Technology Transfer from the Addis Agenda

June 15, 2015
New technologies are central to the kind of global progress outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals, and those technologies need to reach people in the developing world who can benefit from them. But “technology transfer” is a terrible way to think about the issues involved.  ...
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Technology, Development, and the Post-2015 Settlement

June 12, 2015
This paper focuses on invented or created technologies of the type that could (theoretically) be subject to patents and the potential for international agreements including the Addis Financing Conference to better create and share such technologies.