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Financing Africa’s development: Challenges and opportunities

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16 February 2017
Africa

Financing Africa’s Development: Challenges and Opportunities

16 February 2017
With the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as Agenda 2063, the continent’s own development vision, Africa aspires to fulfil major development objectives in the coming years. A key challenge for African countries to succeed in these ambitious development efforts will be to...
Africa

Financing Needs and Debt Sustainability in Africa

16 February 2017
Claudia Roethlisberger, Junior Davis
The financing needs of Africa related to the SDGs are enormous, amounting to at least US$600 billion a year. As both external and domestic debt are growing, how can Africa finance its development aspirations and maintain debt sustainability? In 2015, the international community adopted an ambitious...
E15 Expert Group on Finance and Development

Trade, Finance, and Development: Getting the Institutions Right

16 February 2017
Jean-Louis Arcand
What should policymakers do to improve the enabling environment for trade and finance to better contribute to sustainable development? The primacy of economic institutions as determinants of economic growth and development is a key empirical regularity that has emerged from the past two decades of...
Industrial Goods

African Manufacturing: What Can the Continent Learn from Asia?

16 February 2017
Edward Chisanga
Despite the continent's ambition to diversify economically, African manufacturing remains underdeveloped. What can African policymakers learn from Asia's experience? When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted in 2000, Asia’s manufacturing value added as a proportion of the world’s US...
Investment

Promoting Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investment through Regional Trade Agreements

16 February 2017
Marianna Nerushay
The study of investment provisions in regional trade agreements reveals a gradual shift from protecting foreign investments to providing states with ampler regulatory space in the pursuit of sustainable development objectives. Since the very emergence of investment treaties in the 1950-60s, these...
Africa

Newsroom

16 February 2017
New UK economic development strategy puts emphasis on trade Trade will occupy a strengthened, pivotal place in the UK’s development policy, indicates UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in its “first ever economic development strategy”. The document details how DFID intends to work...
Africa

Publications and Resources

16 February 2017
G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking: A Stepping Stone for Multilateral Rules on Investment - E15 Initiative (ICTSD and WEF) – February 2017 This paper introduces the G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking, beginning with a background review of their crafting...