Tag: Development finance

Nearly 20 leading global banks and investors, totaling $6.6 trillion in assets, launched the Principles for Positive Impact Finance on 30 January 2017 – a first of its kind set o...

Cornerstones of a Marshall Plan with Africa More than ever before, our future – and that of our children and grandchildren – is linked to the future of our neighbouring contin...

Starting, Sunday, in Cape Town: the inaugural UN World Data Forum Learning to Compete: evidence on exporting and firm-level performance (UNU-WIDER) This Special Issue by the Jour...

As recently as two decades ago, it was nearly impossible to find a home with a telephone in sub-Saharan Africa. Just one person in a hundred owned a fixed line; for everyone else...

Financial services, foreign investment, and international aid are essential for improved trade and long-term development in poor economies. tralac’s work in this area examines ho...

Southern Africa is now entering the peak of the lean season following the worst El Niño-induced drought in decades. With food stocks largely depleted due to poor or failed harvest...

Youth unemployment, insecure land tenure and weak value chains are the main obstacles in the way of ending poverty and inequality in West and Central Africa, says a new report to b...

Since the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in December 2015, the world has seen increased ambition on climate change. Almost every country in the world has now set national cli...

Delivering financial services by mobile phone could benefit billions of people by spurring inclusive growth that adds $3.7 trillion to the GDP of emerging economies within a decade...

COMESA’s Intergovernmental Committee starts Policy Week proceedings (COMESA) The Intergovernmental Committee that brings together Permanent/Principal Secretaries was the first t...

The European Commission’s plan for a multi-billion African investment vehicle was one of few highlights in Jean-Claude Juncker’s often turgid state of the Union speech earlier ...

With over 25 years of experience in the global business sector, Mauritius is well positioned to make significant contribution in attracting, mobilising and channeling the necessa...

Sixty-third executive session of the Trade and Development Board, 27-29 September 2016 Agenda items for the meeting of the Board include presentation of the report on UNCTAD ...

Climate finance totalling US $81 billion was mobilized for projects funded by the world’s six largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2015. This included $25 billion of ...

Ministerial Declaration pledges concrete action to implement 2030 Agenda The Development Cooperation Forum was a neutral and impartial space that allowed for fresh perspectiv...

African Governments should add new revenue sources to finance their development, such as remittances and public-private partnerships, and clamp down on illicit financial flows, an ...

We, over 400 organizations that participated in the Civil Society Forum of the fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIV), held i...

Over 60 million people affected by El Niño, many more highly vulnerable to La Niña’s likely knock-on effect Combined efforts to prevent further human suffering, strengthen res...

On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, the African Development Bank approved USD 245 million in loans and grants to the Governments of Uganda and Rwanda to finance a transport project that w...

The first World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) ended in Istanbul, Turkey on 24 May 2016. Even before the summit had opened, UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien predicted t...