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150 Days to Development Finance Success
As of today, February 13, only 150 days remain until the major U.N. Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Starting on July 13, government leaders from around the world...
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Early child development for 2030: China's post-MDG plan
A little over a year ago, Brookings and the China Development Research Foundation cohosted a discussion on how to best prepare future generations through early childhood development. Madame Liu...
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Fifteen years after Millennium Development Goal 2: Where are the education...
In just a few short months a post-2015 Education for All agenda will be adopted in Korea at the World Education Forum, and in September the new Sustainable Development Goals will be agreed upon. Many...
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Shame on me: Why it was wrong to cost the Millennium Development Goals
Fourteen years ago, as preparation for the 2002 Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development, two colleagues and I wrote a paper estimating the costs of achieving the Millennium Development...
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Why we need to think about implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Enormous amounts of time and effort are going into getting agreement on a strategy for sustainable development this September. The Open Working Group outcome document and the secretary-general’s...
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Kudos for Shanta: How to appreciate the 2002 costing paper
Recently I read that World Bank staff were unhappy about major cuts to the institution’s budget. This prompted me to try to figure out what the Bank’s proper budget should be to meet its goal of...
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Innovation and action in funding girls' education
1. Girls' education as a force multiplier Girls’ education functions as a force multiplier in international development, yielding economic and social returns at the individual, family and societal...
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Post-2015 education goals need to be realistic, and will require drastic change
The UNESCO Global Monitoring Report (GMR) launched its annual report card this week on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF spring meetings. The report presents a comprehensive, 500-page overview...
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The fixed cake fallacy: Why I was wrong to believe that rich countries are...
Following Shanta’s confession of his past professional sin in costing the MDGs, it is now my turn to share my experience with a fundamentally flawed belief. In my youth and up until the 1990s I still...
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Measuring poverty and hunger can raise more questions than answers
In 2000, the first set of Millennium Development Goals pledged to halve the proportion of people living in poverty as well as those living with hunger by 2015. This was less ambitious than the goal...
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Financing for education: Opportunities for global action
It is our hope that this year will be marked in history as the year when the world agreed on an ambitious global plan to eradicate poverty and ensure that all children have access to a high-quality...
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Unlocking public and private capital for African infrastructure
Thousands of delegates have descended on Addis Ababa to set the new financing architecture for a new global partnership. This event, the Third Financing for Development Conference, organized by the...
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Obama’s trip to Ethiopia: Economic highlights
In advance of President Obama’s trip to East Africa on July 23, the Africa Growth Initiative has prepared short travel companions on the economic environments in both Ethiopia and Kenya. The...
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Blueprints, bureaucrats, and scaling up: Lessons for education from BRAC’s...
Editor’s note: This blog post is part of the Millions Learning project, which seeks to understand how large-scale improvements can be made in learning across various sectors and disciplines. In the...
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Political decisions and institutional innovations required for systemic...
2015 is a pivotal year. Three major workstreams among all the world’s nations are going forward this year under the auspices of the United Nations to develop goals, financing, and frameworks for the...
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Social policy and the elimination of extreme poverty
Editor's Note: This is a chapter from "The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty," which explores the challenges and steps needed to end extreme poverty. In 1990 approximately half of the population in...
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Systemic sustainability as the strategic imperative for the post-2015 agenda
“The Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a ‘safe operating space’ for human beings,” concludes a paper by 18 researchers “trying to gauge the breaking points in the natural world,” published...
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Action implications of focusing now on implementation of the post-2015 agenda
The consequences of the global financial crisis still ripple through the international system after the initial surge in global economic cooperation and governance immediately following the crisis....
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The post-2015 agenda and the evolution of the World Bank Group
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda reaffirms the central role of development banks in providing concessional and non-concessional long-term financing, countercyclical financing, guarantees and leverage,...
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15 million success stories under the Millennium Development Goals
This weekend, more than 150 world leaders will gather at U.N. headquarters to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. In the lead-up to the summit, many independent analysts are...
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