Earlier this year, on the same day, I met with an impact investor focused on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and with a team working on a new(ish) government-backed investment ...

The facility will strengthen AFC’s funding base and support a growing pipeline of renewable energy and low-carbon transport projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, further expanding the Corporation’s ...

As leaders from around the world gathered in Seville, Spain, at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) to discuss how to finance sustainable economic development, a ...

The US and China spend billions of dollars annually on development finance initiatives in Africa. The continent is consistently the largest recipient of loans, humanitarian assistance and other ...

Ten years ago world leaders agreed on 17 sustainable development goals (sdgs), from ending hunger to ensuring decent work for all. An ensuing conference in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, had the ...

The Sevilla Commitment and Platform for Action advance concrete strategic steps to fulfill the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and chart a path for a fairer shared future, reaffirming the ...

The recent annual IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings convened the world's leading economists and policymakers in Washington, D.C. What was once regarded as a vital forum to discuss global economic ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. With less than 80 days until the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) runs out of legal authority to operate, the Trump ...