Speech delivered by Sir Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD President, at ‘Enabling the Private Sector to Support Refugee-Hosting Communities’ event at EBRD HQ on 3 February 2016. Good afternoon and welcome to the EBRD. Thank you, everyone, for joining us. I know…
Read MoreDevelopment data are at the very heart of the new “Global Goals” for sustainable development: Yet gathering enough of the right sort of data to track the goals is keeping statisticians like me awake at night. Luckily, a new Global…
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 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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