To advance the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to energy in Africa by 2025, the AFDB is forging ahead with a New Deal on Energy for Africa. The video below explains that the undertaking entails joining up with governments,…
Read MoreWhether promoting sustained, inclusive economic growth, ending poverty, building resilient infrastructure or ensuring access to affordable energy for all, one factor stands out as critical a foundation to achieving continued progress across the Sustainable Development Goals spectrum: SKILLS. Although the…
Read MoreReaching an agreement between 193 countries on how to mobilize the finances necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was indeed a notable achievement of the 3rd International Financing for Development Conference. But perhaps more importantly, many of the…
Read MoreSalvador da Bahia was the colonial capital of Brazil in the 16th century, and although it lost its capital status of the country by the second half of the 18th century, it has remained as “the Brazilian capital of happiness,” thanks…
Read MoreThe release of the joint statement “From Billions to Trillions: Transforming Development Finance” at our Spring Meetings is one of the most satisfying moments during my two year tenure as Managing Director and World Bank Group CFO. My one regret…
Read Moreby Hart Shafer Billions to Trillions, Finance for Development, leveraging resources, innovative finance – these are the headline themes this week as development practitioners, politicians, and financial leaders gather in Addis Ababa for a set of conversations around Financing for…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, July 10, 2015—The multilateral development banks (MDBs) and IMF today signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in financing over the next three years and vowed to work more closely with private and public sector partners to help…
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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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