Health is central to ending poverty between now and 2030. Good health is a precondition for poverty alleviation, but it is also an indicator and outcome of progress towards that goal. Health is thus an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. The thousands of people who have been working to design a new set of global […]
Financing is currently at the center of global development discussions and will be center stage in July at the financing for development (FFD) conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thousands of finance experts and policymakers will descend on Addis to advance their vision on funding for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be approved in […]
2015 will be a year of global conferences: the Financing for Development (FfD) Conference in Addis Ababa in July, the UN Summit on the post-2015 development agenda in September and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December. It is too early to tell whether these conferences will succeed or fail. However, it is […]
It would be a mistake to see this year as just being about development. 2015 is a critical year for every person, in every country on this planet. The outcomes of three historical global summits will set the future direction of all government action on global financial flows, sustainable development, and climate change for the […]
At the start of 2016, the U.N. will launch a new set of Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, to drive development efforts around the globe. But one question still needs some thought: How will we finance these new goals? Even more questions lie within this broader question on finance. Which countries need more resources? What […]
It is very welcome that in paragraph 30 of the zero draft for the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development, it is acknowledged that well-functioning national development banks (NDBs) can play a role in filling major financing gaps. Such large financing gaps exist in areas crucial for sustainable development, including infrastructure, agriculture, industrialization, science, […]
A successful outcome of the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) will be a linchpin for the adoption and subsequent implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) following the September Summit at the United Nations in New York as well as the climate agreement under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) […]
In the upcoming months, decision-makers and leaders will have unprecedented opportunities to establish, within a multi-lateral framework, a transformational agenda for the future of sustainable development. In a context of global paradigm shifts, the concurrence of three key global summits will define the route and aspirations of this agenda for the coming decades. The Third […]
