What are the key changes happening in the present era of development finance that will prove critical to financing the post-2015 goals? We invited a series of experts to tell us their thoughts on the future of development finance.
As the latest round of WTO trade negotiations at Bali commences, we have been examining whether and how AfT contributes to development progress. In this mini blog series, we add to the debate by asking the following question ‘What does the future hold for Aid for Trade?’
What role have the Millennium Development Goals played in keeping health issues on the global agenda – what have they helped and what have they hindered? This blog series explores.
Almost 1 billion people currently live in slums, and this number is expected to grow by nearly 500 million by 2020 - for the post-2015 agenda, it is vital that we ensure progress is reaching the most marginalised. In this blog series, experts put forward their key recommendations to improve the way we define and measure progress in the quality of life of the urban poor.
What would you choose if you were asked about what is important in making your life better? This question is at the heart of this blog series and poll [Note: the poll has now closed], which aims to find out what really matters when it comes to human development.
What political voice is and why and how it matters – and for whom – has emerged as a central area of interest and engagement in international development. This series explores the way in which development and voice interact.
This blog series looks at the links between security and development and what role security plays (or does not) in development progress, drawing on a range of expert perspectives.
Our new blog series focuses on the challenges and opportunities for advancing gender equality goals, women’s voice and agency in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
To accompany the launch of our health case studies, we asked leading experts and practitioners, both global and local, to contribute their own personal perspective on progress in health, telling us about the successes, the drivers of progress, the challenges and the lessons learned.
As part of our education case study launch, we've asked a number of experts to consider what we have learned about education progress – in some cases globally and in others from a country perspective – and to highlight the biggest victories, trade-offs, and lessons as we move toward a new set of post-2015 goals.
