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Action Plan for Promoting Private Sector Contributions The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals need a step-change in investment Faced with common global economic, soc...

The selection: Tuesday, 14 July Making regional trade work for Africa: turning words into deeds (UNCTAD) In its latest Policy Brief, UNCTAD identifies some of the barriers t...

The third international conference on Financing for Development opened on 13 July 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The opening plenary meeting was opened by the UN General Secretary,...

Speaking at the opening session of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa on Monday 13 July, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo outlined ...

Sees near-term potential to raise additional $120 billion a year by 2020 Innovative financial mechanisms in four key areas have the potential to boost crucial investment in sustai...

In its latest Policy Brief, UNCTAD identifies some of the barriers to implementing regional trade agreements in Africa and proposes remedial actions that may be taken by national G...

Achieve the future sustainable development agenda and the goal of ending extreme poverty will require strong and creative partnerships to turn billions in official assistance into ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun implementing the COMESA Regional Transit Customs Bond Guarantee (RCTBG). This follows the signing of the Inter Surety Agreement by the Di...

Member states of the East African Community (EAC) appear to be racing against time to meet a self-prescribed deadline of December 2015 by which they pledged to have fully implement...

The selection: Monday, 13 July Featured tweet, @kaushikcbasu: Tax revenue (central govt) as % of GDP (approx) DR Congo 8.4 Bangladesh 8.7 Pakistan 10.1 India 10.8 Sweden 20.7...

The agendas of accelerating sustainable development and eradicating poverty and that of climate change are deeply intertwined. Growth strategies that fail to tackle poverty and/o...

Global leaders are poised to adopt a set of targets tackling the world’s biggest challenges. These targets include the ambitious goal of ending extreme poverty in a generation.&...

The declaration gives assessment on the current global political and economic situation and reflects the common approaches of the BRICS countries on the most topical issues of mult...

Over the decades, the EU’s development policies have been anchored in its partnership agreements with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries. These agreement...

New Development Bank, formed by five of the world’s bigger emerging markets, is seeking to tackle more riskier and challenging projects than traditional global finance institutio...

BRICS is gaining momentum as an increasingly effective organization and its New Development Bank is likely to become new source of funding for the current infrastructure gap, South...

Will help to bring developing countries interests further into international dialogue The World Bank and IMF are launching a new initiative to help developing count...

The selection: Friday, 10 July Featured tweet, @AMB_A_Mohammed: Africa’s fundamental commitment is to Trade Multilateralism; For Africa, for us, it is Multilateralism first...

Regulatory and policy shortcomings stifle Africa’s capacity to capitalize on the potential of its services sector, the UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa Report 2015 ...

This new ActionAid report explores how developing countries collect much less corporate tax than they could as a result or corporate tax avoidance – revenue that could help to pa...