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19 Oct 16
Innovative financing solutions will need to be developed in order to meet the New Urban Agenda adopted at the UN-backed Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, this week.
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19 Oct 16
Private companies that become involved in development and aid programmes need to be made accountable to wider society and not just to their shareholders, Malawi’s finance minister has said.
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17 Oct 16
The African Development Bank has approved a loan of 570m rand to help finance affordable housing in South Africa.
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14 Oct 16
The Kingdom of Morocco is pioneering a development plan that emphasises decentralisation and local decision-making. This brings with it challenges, not least around funding, but could be a relevant...
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14 Oct 16
Natural disasters pose the greatest risk to cities in an increasingly urbanised world, and could cost $314bn worldwide each year by 2030, the World Bank has warned.
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12 Oct 16
The United Nations is to launch a new platform dedicated to scaling up public-private partnerships and other financial innovations with a view to channelling funding toward the Sustainable...
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11 Oct 16
The United Nations and the Haitian government have appealed for $120m in aid to support up to 2.1 million people that have been affected by Hurricane Matthew.
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11 Oct 16
Integrated reporting has a key role to play in Malaysia’s economic transformation, the country’s deputy trade minister has said.
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11 Oct 16
Singapore has opened a new government agency dedicated to leading the country’s digital and data strategy.
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10 Oct 16
Damage from the deadly Hurricane Matthew, which destroyed much of Haiti last week, will run into the billions, according to estimates from a research and consulting firm.
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10 Oct 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has outlined the policies she believes are needed to foster inclusive growth as the world enters a new, digital age.
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7 Oct 16
Olympic host countries are all too keen to show off how amazing their technology is. And their innovations should make other cities better places to live
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6 Oct 16
Governments around the world pledged $15.2bn in aid for Afghanistan until 2020 at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels yesterday.
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6 Oct 16
The world will need another 69 million teachers if every child is to have the opportunity to go to school by 2030, the United Nations has warned.
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6 Oct 16
Former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres is to be the next United Nations secretary general, the organisation’s security council have agreed.
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6 Oct 16
A widely criticised private school provider has come under yet more fire today as teachers’ unions have slammed its methods and called for its closure.
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5 Oct 16
The speed with which anti-corruption laws are being implemented in Afghanistan must be increased in order to safeguard aid from the international community and alleviate the suffering of citizens, a...
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5 Oct 16
Governments around the world are spending more on tackling climate change, mostly in their own countries, according to the Climate Policy Initiative.
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4 Oct 16
The Asian Development Bank has become the first development bank to secure a risk transfer arrangement for its sovereign loan portfolio, increasing its lending capacity by half a billion dollars over...
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4 Oct 16
Governance in Africa has barely improved in the last decade as worrying declines in safety and the rule of law hold back progress, according to the authoritative Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
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3 Oct 16
The process of designing the world’s first multi-country development impact bond is to get under way with the intention of improving the lives of Syrian refugees who have been dispersed in the Middle...
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3 Oct 16
The World Bank’s private sector lending arm is profiting from projects linked to human rights and environmental abuses, according to a report from Oxfam.
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3 Oct 16
High rates of inequality could stifle progress toward ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank has warned.
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3 Oct 16
If development is political, what should donors do? Less politically naïve programming would be a good start
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29 Sep 16
The European Union’s budget chief Kristalina Georgieva has entered the race to become United Nations secretary general after fellow Bulgarian Irina Bokova failed to win the needed support.