The Sevilla Commitment, adopted at last year's Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), provided us with a roadmap for overcoming these financing challenges. But for FFD4 ...

The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3, 2025, builds on a quarter-century of global efforts to achieve a more peaceful, ...

Sustainability will not be reached by persisting on past formulas that conceive Africa as a continent in need of aid and debt relief, but only if African countries develop and manage their own sources ...

This is a joint post with Tess Turner and Michael Weilandt. When China decided that it wanted to fund infrastructure investment throughout the developing world (The Belt and Road Initiative) it put ...

Business finance refers to the various means by which companies obtain debt capital or investment from external sources, or the ways in which they fund growth strategies. Businesses generally progress ...

The Biden administration inherited a world reeling from the public health and economic effects of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Rightly, the administration is prioritizing its response to the current ...

Loan financing is a cornerstone of real estate development. It’s a rare project that has captive capital to finance the entire project, and many investors expect that their contributions will be ...

Without adequate financing, the best intentions of the global community expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will remain beyond reach. Recent setbacks in financing for development ...