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The missing development trillions

  • Women and children separate grain from soil in Malawi

    Why unfair tax treaties hold back developing countries

    Lovisa Moller
    Developed countries need to review their tax treaties with developing countries to prioritise the fight against poverty
  • A girl looks at food served to her for free at a government-run school in Bangalore, India

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

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

    Walt Macnee, vice chair at MasterCard, talks frankly about how the relationship between the private sector and NGOs has become less acrimonious
  • Child looking through toy frame, smiling<br>CPX8EB Child looking through toy frame, smiling

    Africapitalism: empowering people works much better than giving them aid

    Tony Elumelu
    We must revisit our definition of development and the tools that we employ to achieve it
  • The World Bank is funding a regional transmission network in West Africa to improve energy access.

    An extra trillion dollars: could development banks do more?

    Chris Humphrey
    The development banks have huge potential to deliver funding for vital infrastructure, argues Chris Humphrey
  • A dirt road with ox and cart in north-west Zambia

    Blended finance may not be the work of the devil after all

    A writer on international development and a CEO of an asset management company discuss the issues of public and private capital investment in driving change
  • George Soros testifies on Capitol Hill<br>epa01367476 George Soros, chairman of the Soros Fund Management, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. USA on 03 June 2008. The committee held a hearing on the manipulation of energy markets.  EPA/STEFAN ZAKLIN

    Philanthropists can’t eradicate global poverty, but we can make a start

    Jane Wales
    Philanthropic organisations have the agility, creativity and audacity to be the risk takers of development financing
  • Students at the Masuba Midwifery School , Sierra Leone

    Remittances are three times greater than aid – how can they go even further?

    Ade Daramy
    This year the World Bank expects remittances to reach over $600bn; they will play a crucial role in fundings the SDGs
  • Census officials collect details from village women in northern India in order to boost tax collections.

    We're losing $240bn a year to tax avoidance. Who really ends up paying?

    Erik Solheim
    Only by convincing corporations and wealthy individuals to pay their taxes fairly do we have any hope of funding the future
  • Andrew Mitchell

    The private sector must be seen as an engine of development, not its enemy

    Andrew Mitchell
  • Ban Ki-moon

    The missing development trillions: welcome to the debate

  • Kids walk to school in Tanzania

    The missing development trillions: where will they come from?

    Share your ideas for how the development sector will find an additional $3.1tn a year to fund the SDGs
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