Development aid is increasingly being provided by middle-income economies. This is a significant change in a shifting global aid landscape
Report: Financing for Development in the Least Developed Countries: Expanding the Financing Tool-box and Managing Vulnerability
How can the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) can make better use of a more diverse financing for development 'tool-box'? How can they leverage more blended finance, green finance, guarantees, local currency financing, and more?
Blog: Financing development through better domestic resource mobilization
Over the last 15 years, developing countries have increased domestic revenues by on average 14% annually. Domestic revenues of developing economies amounted to USD 7.7 trillion in 2012; that’s USD 6 trillion more than in 2000. Domestic resources are the largest, most important and most stable source of finance for development. Can we expect these resources to keep on increasing in the coming years?
Blog: Finding the money: financing Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis
The UN warns the humanitarian aid system is ‘being stretched to breaking point’
Blog: Addis Ababa Financing for Development Conference: A Missed Opportunity to Discuss the Role of International Public Finance Post-2015
What role for international public finance in funding the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Blog: The Addis Ababa Action Agenda: A step forward on financing for development?
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) lays out the steps the international community promises to take to fund the world’s new sustainable development agenda – to be agreed in New York in September. What does it promise?
Report: Financing for Development and Small Island Developing States: A Snapshot and Ways Forward
This paper provides a snapshot of development financing in small island developing States (SIDS). It reviews key data on domestic and international financial flows, such as development and climate aid, foreign direct investment, remittances, tax revenues and savings and also explores debt sustainability.
Blog: Sustainable Development Goals for all countries
Do the UN's new SDGs signal a paradigm shift in how we conceive of ‘development’? Is dividing the world up into 'developed' and 'developing' useful or accurate?
Blog: Can the data revolution transform how we finance development?
Which countries need more resources to finance the SDGs? What types of resources are needed most? Where does international finance, both public and private, currently flow? Where does it not? Answers to all of these require reliable and easy-to-understand data on all international financial flows.
Blog: How will small island states finance our ambitious Sustainable Development Goals?
With major environmental shocks increasingly common, how can small states – from Barbados to Cabo Verde to Samoa – better plan for environmental emergencies? And will the international community make sure that adequate finance is made available?
Blog: A crucial year ahead: development finance and the need for fresh perspectives
With the first round of UN negotiations over, where are debates on financing for development?
Blog: How to finance the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are much more ambitious than their predecessor. Much more financing – public and private, domestic and external – will need to be mobilized.
Blog: From MDGs to … SDGs
The world has drafted a spectacular new ‘to-do’ list of Sustainable Development Goals. Do the SDGs represent a chance for transformational change?
Blog: How well is the rich world supporting development?
The policies and actions of rich and powerful nations influence the developing world’s development prospects. How well are they supporting development?
Gail Hurley 