Sustainable Development Goals

Country efforts on the SDGs since 2015 are off-track, say Amanda Glassman and Liesl Schnabel. As the second UN Data Forum kicks off in Dubai, they call for a greater focus on the completeness, accuracy, and availability of data.

The formidable challenge of financing the Sustainable Development Goals has focused attention on the role of private capital in filling huge finance gaps. But for low-income countries (LICs), which receive only about 5 percent of total cross-border private capital flows to developing countries, ther...

The IDFC represents a unique mix of bilateral agencies, national development banks, and regional development banks. As such, it holds promise for bringing new and productive collaborations to the SDG agenda that extend well beyond the work of the major multilateral development institutions. In a new...