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Enticing more private finance to development is tricky

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INT

Blended finance has failed to deliver on policymakers’ expectations on both scale and effectiveness, mobilising only USD306bn from 2012 to 2020, whereas the shortfall required to…

China's global initiatives will evolve

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CHINA

The summit marked the tenth anniversary of the government’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing revised the BRI’s emphasis from large-scale infrastructure projects to…

Gender infrastructure gaps galvanise diverse partners

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INTERNATIONAL

Efforts to close gender infrastructure gaps.

China will prioritise domestic over foreign policy

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CHINA

President Xi Jinping in a speech commended the accomplishments of China’s leadership since he came to power over a decade ago. At a time when China faces growing economic…

Prospects for emerging economies to end-2022

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PROSPECTS H2 2022

Prospects for emerging economies to end-2022.

Global development plan will expand China's reach

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CHINA

Beijing positions the Initiative as its flagship development vehicle, building a coalition of support for it in the Global South and using it to project a Chinese vision of…

South-South cooperation has a long way to go

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INTERNATIONAL

Foreign development assistance from and to countries in the ‘Global South’ aims to disrupt not only the established direction of aid flows from the northern to the southern…

Global internet governance faces strain not severance

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INT

Since the internet’s inception as a military and research tool through to its development as a global platform for communication, commerce and collaboration, its governance has…

Prospects for global development goals to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

Prospects for global development goals to end-2020.

Global burden of non-communicable diseases will rise

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INTERNATIONAL

In the same period, the share of deaths from communicable (or infectious) diseases has fallen from 30% to 23%. Yet there has been no corresponding shift in global development…