Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Development finance

June 2017

  • A student reads the Quran at the Al-Ashriyyah Nurul Iman Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country.

    Development 2030
    Zakat requires Muslims to donate 2.5% of their wealth: could this end poverty?

    Zainulbahar Noor and Francine Pickup
    Estimated at almost $2tn in 2015, Islamic finance is often overlooked by development organisations as a potential source of funds

September 2016

  • Women fill jugs of water from a tap  in Kaynabayonga, DRC

    Water in development
    Eight ideas to fund access to water and toilets for all by 2030

  • A boy takes bath from a water tap near a polluted water channel in Kolkata, India.

    Water in development
    Live Q&A: $114bn a year needed for water and toilets – where will it come from?

June 2016

  • A girl looks at food served to her for free at a government-run school in Bangalore, India

    The missing development trillions
    The missing development trillions: how you would fund the SDGs

    More than 50 people shared their ideas on where the sector will find over $3tn a year to fund the sustainable development goals. Here’s a selection of our favourites

May 2016

  • Group of young children smiling paddling in the Niger River Mali

    The missing development trillions
    'The private sector thought it had a divine right to exist'

  • Child looking through toy frame, smiling<br>CPX8EB Child looking through toy frame, smiling

    The missing development trillions
    Africapitalism: empowering people works much better than giving them aid

    Tony Elumelu
  • The World Bank is funding a regional transmission network in West Africa to improve energy access.

    The missing development trillions
    An extra trillion dollars: could development banks do more?

    Chris Humphrey
  • A dirt road with ox and cart in north-west Zambia

    The missing development trillions
    Blended finance may not be the work of the devil after all

  • The missing development trillions
    Philanthropists can’t eradicate global poverty, but we can make a start

    Jane Wales
  • The missing development trillions
    Remittances are three times greater than aid – how can they go even further?

    Ade Daramy
  • The missing development trillions
    We're losing $240bn a year to tax avoidance. Who really ends up paying?

    Erik Solheim
  • The missing development trillions
    The private sector must be seen as an engine of development, not its enemy

    Andrew Mitchell
  • The missing development trillions
    The missing development trillions: welcome to the debate

  • The missing development trillions
    The missing development trillions: where will they come from?

March 2016

  • Nairobi, Kenya

    Best bits
    Development finance in 2016: eight steps forward

    Eight months on from the Addis Ababa Action Agenda being signed, what’s next for development finance? A panel of experts share their thoughts

February 2016

  • Children in Addis Ababa

    Live Q&A: What is the future of development finance?

    Join a panel 1-3pm GMT on Thursday 3 March to discuss alternative ways to raise money for development projects

January 2016

  • ETHIOPIA-ENERGY-WINDFARM<br>TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JENNY VAUGHAN Men walk along a road with cattle near turbines at Ashegoda wind farm in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, on November 28, 2013. The farm, built by France's Vergent Group for 230 million euro ($313 million), is the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa with a capacity of 120 megawatts. With its multi-billion dollar projects in wind, hydropower, solar and geothermal, Ethiopia is pioneering green energy projects on the continent. The Horn of Africa nation aims to supply power to its 91 million people  nearly half currently have no access -- boost its economy by exporting power and become carbon-neutral by 2025. AFP PHOTO/JENNY VAUGHAN        (Photo credit should read JENNY VAUGHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

    Development 2030
    Seven ideas on how to finance the SDGs

  • A man carries empty water pitchers

    Development disruptors
    Live Q&A: Financing the SDGs - where will the money come from?

December 2015

  • kids in a buenos aires slum, la cava<br>A2EG5N kids in a buenos aires slum, la cava

    Is it time to rethink the divide between humanitarian and development funding?

    With both systems under huge pressure and facing new challenges, is it finally time to reshape the aid financing model?

September 2015

  • Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

    Global goals: a chance to hold power accountable and to disrupt

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
    If we use them right, the SDGs will be fantastic tools to empower and enable
About 130 results for Development finance
1234...
  翻译: