Financing for Development

UN Must Fight Tax Evasion, Says UN Expert

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
A UN Human Rights Expert has called on the international community to fight tax evasion and abolish tax havens that siphon off essential resources from human rights protection and global development.

The U.N. at 70: Leading the Global Agenda on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality – Part Two

By Lakshmi Puri
The efforts of the United Nations and the global women’s movement to promote the women’s rights agenda and make it a top international priority saw its culmination in the creation of U.N. Women, by the General Assembly in 2010.

U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda Adopted Amidst Closed-Door Deals

By Bhumika Muchhala
At about a quarter to seven on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 2, the member states of the United Nations adopted the post-2015 development agenda outcome document, titled "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda."

Opinion: No Aid, No Tax, No Development

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is widely seen as a major disappointment for developing countries as well as others hoping for adequate means of implementation to realise national development ambitions and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

U.N. Taps Private Sector to Fund Development, Advocate Social Causes

By Thalif Deen
When the United Nations seeks outside financial assistance either for development needs or to advocate social causes, it invariably turns to the private sector these days.

U.N. Targets Trillions of Dollars to Implement Sustainable Development Agenda

By Thalif Deen
After more than two years of intense negotiations, the U.N.’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) with 17 goals -- including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger -- to be reached by 2030.

Opinion: Developing Nations Set to Challenge Rich Ahead of SDG Summit

By Soren Ambrose
The final round of negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals – the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, due to be inaugurated in September at the U.N. General Assembly – is now underway in New York.

Opinion: Addis Outcome Will Impact Heavily on Post-2015 Agenda – Part 2

By Bhumika Muchhala
The United Nations is the only universal forum that connects systemic issues to the global partnership for development. The latter recognises North-South cooperation based on historical responsibility and varying levels of development and capacity among member states of the U.N.

Opinion: Third FfD Conference Fails to Finance Development – Part One

By Bhumika Muchhala
The third Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa concluded last Thursday, July 16, in bad faith as developed countries rejected a proposal for a global tax body and dismissed developing countries’ compromise proposal to strengthen the existing U.N. committee of tax experts.

Opinion: Strengthen Tax Cooperation to End Hunger and Poverty Quickly

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
By the end of this year, the 15-year time frame for the Millennium Development Goals will end, with good progress on several indicators, but limited achievements on others.

Opinion: Unrestrained ‘Privatisation of Poverty-Reduction’ Puts Human Rights at Risk

By Savio Carvalho
Corporate lobbyists are unusual guests at development meetings, but when the United Nations held its Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa this week to decide who pays for its new “Sustainable Development Goals”, some governments laid out the red carpet for the private sector.

Civil Society Sceptical Over “Action Agenda” to Finance Development

By Thalif Deen
Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most civil society organisations (CSOs) expressed scepticism over the final outcome.

Opinion: U.N. Can Help Reform the International Financial System

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The growth in global interdependence poses greater challenges to policy makers on a wide range of issues and for countries at all levels of development.

New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding

By Kitty Stapp
Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children.

IMF Steps Up Lending to Achieve Sustainable Development

By Zhai Yun Tan
As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development opens in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Monday, all eyes are on the United Nation’s post-2015 development agenda, billed as the most ambitious and far-reaching poverty eradication plan in the organisation’s history.

Global Tax Body Sticking Point at Financing Conference in Addis

By Thalif Deen
When the four-day-long international conference on Financing for Development (FfD) concludes in the Ethiopian capital later this week, one of the lingering questions in the minds of departing delegates may well be: did we really achieve anything concrete after years of negotiations?

Opinion: FfD Must Deliver for Least Developed Countries

By Gyan Chandra Acharya
Three years ago the United Nations initiated a conversation on a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how the global community can lay foundations for an ambitious endeavour to eradicate extreme poverty, protect the planet, reduce vulnerability to shocks and ultimately raise the dignity of all humanity.

Water and Sanitation Urged as Focal Points at Addis Ababa

By Roger Hamilton-Martin
Ahead of the all-important International Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, a top water charity has called upon world leaders to prioritise programmes for water, sanitation and good hygiene, so that no one is left behind.

Opinion: From New York to Addis Ababa, Financing for Development on Life-Support – Part Two

By Bhumika Muchhala
The key priorities of the Group of 77 developing countries (G77) remain somewhat aligned around a set of issues that have been present from the beginning of the FfD negotiations in New York.

Opinion: En Route to Paris

By Gunter Nooke
When the three-day conference on Financing for Development begins on Jul. 13 in Addis Ababa, the competitors in this year’s Tour de France will have reached the mountains. They will have already experienced a few spills and will still have many kilometres to go.

Opinion: From New York to Addis Ababa, Financing for Development on Life Support – Part One

By Bhumika Muchhala
Lack of ambition and consensus in the New York negotiations begs the question of whether governments in Addis Ababa will salvage or further dilute the outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development from July 13-16.
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