The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed a group of prominent experts to promote actionable policy solutions and galvanize political and public support required
Thursday, July 26, 2018 publisher: Project Syndicate For the last three years, dozens of countries have gathered each July to present their national plans to
Thursday, July 19, 2018 This blog is adapted from ‘Crowding-In Private Finance: What Multilateral Banks Can Do Differently,’ by Mahmoud Mohieldin, Nritya Subramaniam, and Jos Verbeek in
Monday, July 9, 2018 Water touches nearly every aspect of development. It flows through and connects the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by driving economic growth, supporting
Strong regional and global integration have been central to countries’ rapid growth and reduced poverty. Few economic sectors can better illustrate integration’s potential benefits — and
To achieve the SDGs, we have to focus on building capacity of development actors at the local level to finance and deliver services that change the lives
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 In any country, achieving the SDGs will require government, business, aid agencies, multilateral banks, and civil society to work together, adopt
Thursday, July 13, 2017 In recent decades, millions of people in the Arab world have been lifted out of extreme poverty. But progress is now
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 publisher: www.huffingtonpost.com After a period of slow decline in conflict and violence since the end of the Cold War, conflicts have
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 publisher: blogs.worldbank.org,www.huffingtonpost.com ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN – There are 1.25 million lives lost in road accidents annually — 90 percent of these in