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Urban inequality and access: Will Habitat III rise to the challenge?
While cities worldwide continue to see rising levels of economic growth and inequality, inclusivity has emerged as a key goal for global leaders looking to encourage more sustainable urban development....
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Inclusive cities: Transportation and accessibility
Adie Tomer, fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, and Jeffrey Gutman, senior fellow in Global Economy and Development, discuss how to transform transportation policy with a focus on accessibility...
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Why and how might a new measure of development cooperation be helpful?
Authors Homi Kharas Senior Fellow and Deputy Director - Global Economy and Development A Andrew Rogerson Senior Research Associate, ODI There has been much discussion recently of creating additional...
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Africa’s industrialization in the era of the 2030 Agenda: From political...
Although African countries enjoyed fast economic growth based on high commodity prices over the past decade, this growth has not translated into the economic transformation the continent needs to...
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Links in the chain of sustainable finance: Accelerating private investments...
Sustainable finance: Imagining realignment The ambitious goals of Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement on climate change have not yet been matched by an equally ambitious financing plan that will get...
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What role do impact bonds have in the achievement of the Global Goals?
Public and private sector leaders currently face the daunting task of identifying the path to achieving the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) within 14 years....
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Variations on the impact bond concept: Remittances as a funding source for...
As the world comes to grips with the scope and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one theme continually rises to the surface: financing. Author D David Coleman Senior Education...
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Can globalization be rescued from itself?
1.1 What’s the issue? Globalization—the integration among national economies of markets for goods, services, technology, capital flows, and, to some degree, labor—has played an enormous role in...
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A new global agenda: Implications for the role of the World Bank
The new global agenda hammered out in 2015 is more comprehensive in scope, more universal in its relevance to countries across the income spectrum, and more ambitious in its targets than the MDG agenda...
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The democratization of data
A little more than a year ago, the international community endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals. While the goals reinforced attention to previously identified challenges in health, education, and...
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The internet as a human right
This summer, the UN declared that it considers the internet to be a human right. Specifically, an addition was made to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states:...
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Ending rural hunger
A full year has passed since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the members of the United Nations. The second of these goals calls for ending hunger, achieving food security,...
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Achieving sustainability in a 5G world
In September 2015, the United Nations established new global sustainable development goals and committed to “protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and...
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How close to zero?
Introduction A core ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the economic, social, and environmental objectives affirmed by all U.N. member states in September 2015—is to end extreme...
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How close is the world to ending extreme poverty?
How close is each country to eliminating extreme poverty by 2030, in all its forms? Our new paper, “How close to zero?” considers this crucial challenge set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals...
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OECD peer review of US foreign assistance commends progress but notes areas...
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, former head of the Swedish aid agency and now chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, was in...
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Mobilizing financial resources
Sub-Saharan Africa’s oil exporters: Decisive domestic adjustment is needed to address growing financing needs While prospects remain encouraging for many sub-Saharan African countries, how things have...
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Change of pace: Accelerations and advances during the Millennium Development...
Did the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) make any difference? Perhaps no question is more important for assessing the results of global policy cooperation over the past 15 years. But this is a...
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