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Disaster-Triggered Financing Mechanisms Must Provide More Relief for Myanmar
By Kofi Gunu, Marina Zucker-Marques and Rishikesh Ram Bhandary On March 28, 2025, Myanmar suffered a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which Read more
The Role of Government Guidance Funds in Financing Innovation in China
By Cornel Ban and Xuan Li In most Western economies, venture capital (VC) is largely a private enterprise, driven by Read more
Financing Technological Innovation in China: Neo-developmental Financial Statecraft through Government Guidance Funds
Driven by geopolitics and the threat of climate change, industrial policy has reclaimed center stage in the comparative political economy Read more
The International Financial Architecture and Sustainable Prosperity
The current international financial architecture is misaligned with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. External Read more
Scaling Up Funding and Reforming Financial Institutions
In the 2024 United Nations Pact for the Future, global leaders committed to scaling up and reforming international financial institutions Read more
Seminar Summary – Queering Repression: How the Global Crackdown on Civil Society Affects LGBT+ NGO Foundings
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On February 26, 2025, the Spring 2025 Human Capital Initiative (HCI) Seminar Series at the Boston University Read more
10 Ways Financing for Development has Changed in 10 years
By Tim Hirschel-Burns Financing for Development Conferences – the chief event in the United Nations (UN) system on mobilizing the Read more
Mapping Global Financial Risks Under Climate Change
There is a growing concern about the potential impacts of climate change on financial stability but little quantitative evidence is Read more
Unmined Potential? Opportunities for Development Finance to Support Sustainability and Inclusion in Transition Mineral Supply Chains
Demand for energy transition minerals (TMs) is set to expand many-fold as global investors and nations embrace the ongoing global Read more
Digging Deeper: How Development Finance Can Unearth Sustainability in Transition Mineral Supply Chains
By Julie Radomski and Rebecca Ray As the global economy shifts toward a greener future, the role of public development Read more