Stephen O’Brien is the United Nations...
Magazine
August 2015
Cover Story
Funding the planet’s future
Will the billions required for the SDGs be sustainable?
Panos/Frederic Courbet
Financing for Development
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Can Africa fund its own growth?
Mobilizing domestic resources is a key source of finance -
Borrowing responsibly: Africa’s debt challenge
Countries may be borrowing too much and too fast -
Billions now required to save depleted healthcare systems
Ebola’s most affected countries lobby for funding for hospital infrastructure -
New bond issue set to help Africa go ‘green’
A way of bankrolling a clean energy revolution -
For development finance, there is no one-size-fits-all solution
Countries to choose targets best suited to local conditions -
Loans to women = smart economics
Women find innovative ways of financing projects -
Think beyond microfinance when talking about businesswomen
Financing for women in Africa has remained stubbornly “micro” -
Microfinance: Good for the poor?
To lift the poor from poverty, create jobs, not loans, critics say
Also
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Using trade to boost Africa’s industrialization
Deliberate trade policies could lead to growth -
The changing face of Ethiopia
An assertive nation flexes its economic muscle -
Ethiopia’s development is mostly people-driven
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Cashing in on the cashew nuts boom
Local processing could boost revenue in Côte d’Ivoire -
African statistics have come of age
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Africans also investing in China
African countries have poured over $14 billion in investments