Development aid is increasingly being provided by middle-income economies. This is a significant change in a shifting global aid landscape
Blog: Financing the SDGs in cities: Innovative new approaches
Many of the investments needed to achieve the SDGs will be made by cities. How can cities leverage, manage and deploy resources to support sustainable and inclusive urban development and bounce back from major shocks?
Blog: How Tax Inspectors Without Borders are tackling lost tax revenues
Developing countries lose billions annually through tax avoidance and evasion. New UN-led initiatives are helping but global action is still required
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: Big gaps and little money: Why solutions to finance SDGs in LDCs matter
How can the Least Developed Countries make use of a broader suite of financing instruments now available to support their development? And how can donors help them in this effort?
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: Game, set and match: Over and out for the SDGs? Not so fast
We have raised the bar on our development aspirations. That the SDGs will cost trillions to achieve is obvious. Will we raise the bar on development finance?
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)?
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: What role for innovative finance in supporting the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals?
What role for innovative financing for development in supporting the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals? Can we expect it to be a major contributor?
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.
Gail Hurley 