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Getting Real About Finance for Development: A new shared platform
Enabling people and their goods to stay on the move by rebuilding rural roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo; keeping young children in elementary school in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon...
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Want to save the world? Invest in Latin America — together
How much can we accomplish in fifteen years? A lot, if we work together. That’s why the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is ramping up its partnership efforts around the new Sustainable...
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Deciphering the new development agenda
An historic agreement around an Addis Ababa Action agenda was just reached at the UN’s Third Conference on Financing for Development where I was part of the ADB delegation. The agreement marks a step...
View ArticleFrom Ambition to Reality: Policies to Support Sustainable Development Goals
Countries should drive their own development, but working together, the international community can turn the picture of sustainable development envisaged by the Sustainable Development Goals from...
View ArticleIFIs back new global development agenda with stepped-up support
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have hailed today’s adoption of a sustainable development agenda for the next generation and are fully committed to...
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Our High 5s are fundamental to Africa and Africa is fundamental to the SDGs
Much of the focus of the UN Summit to chart a way forward on global development was on Africa. As the wider world looks beyond the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals to the new Sustainable...
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A bumper harvest for Tunisian olives
Tunisia is, after Spain and Italy, the third largest exporter of olive oil in the world and the sector accounts for 40% of its agricultural exports. More value could be added to the sector if Tunisia...
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Food security priorities for Asia and the Pacific
In a September ADB blog poll ahead of World Food Day tomorrow, we asked readers what they thought should be the priority to reduce food insecurity in Asia and the Pacific. Hunger and poor nutrition are...
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Climate change and poverty
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are two major objectives of the international community, but they cannot be considered in isolation. Our new World Bank Group report “Shock Waves: Managing...
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Making the 2030 sustainable development agenda work for fragile and conflict...
At a technical meeting of the G7+ group of fragile states, participants from Haiti to Timor Leste gathered with a mission: to sift through the many proposed indicators for the 17 Sustainable...
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