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 aspiration into reality, says IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. In a discussion at the…
Read MoreAn 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 toward revitalizing the world’s partnership for…
Read MoreHow 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 Development Goals (SDGs), objectives designed as a roadmap to…
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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 Yolanda; setting up low carbon energy…
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