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How new donor countries are reshaping the development aid landscape
Development aid is increasingly being provided by middle-income economies. This is a significant change in a shifting global aid landscape A growing number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe (such as Croatia, Serbia, Poland and Romania) and in central Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) are now opening formal development aid agencies. I recently delivered a United Nations Development Programme … Continue reading
Tony Payne blogs for UNDP’s Human Development Report Office
Following his SPERI Comment blog ‘We are all developing countries now!‘, Director of SPERI, Tony Payne, continues his attack on the outdated language used in current global discussions, in a blog for the Human Development Report (HDR) Office, part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Discussing the UNDP’s latest HDR ‘The Rise of the South’, published just a couple of … Continue reading
What do Global Megatrends mean for the financing of the SDGs?
How finance is raised and spent must be transformed to effectively meet the enormous challenges of the 21st century The International Labour Organisation (ILO) recently reported that the world economy will need to spend at least US$ 7 trillion extra on social care by 2030 to cope with demographic changes worldwide. Rising birth rates and increased life expectancy mean there … Continue reading →
19 September 2018 by Gail Hurley
Categories: SPERI Comment | Tags: Gail Hurley, megatrends, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNDP | Leave a comment