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Global development must benefit investors too, including China: UNDP head

As aid dries up, countries pledge to close the $4 trillion development gap

UN Member States reaffirmed their commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by adopting a declaration on Wednesday that they will implement reforms to help close the $...

Sustainable Development Goal 5

In 2015, UN Member states universally adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, encompassing three core elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protect...

What Development Looks like in Myanmar Today

YANGON, Myanmar, July 24 (IPS) - When asked what development looks like today, a community leader in Kalaw township points to these fields. Once destroyed by a typhoon, they are n...

Africa: Africa's 2026 Sustainable Development Report Sets Priorities to Fast-Track Progress to 2030

[African Development Bank (AfDB)] The 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report (ASDR 2026) is setting the direction for accelerated action on the Sustainable Development Goals (S...

The Tale of Two Countries: Elite Stake and Development

SYDNEY, July 14 (IPS) - Philippines was the most advanced Southeast Asian country with the highest per capita GDP until about the early 1960s. Its per capita GDP in purchasing pow...

Africa: Population Density - a Missing Factor in Development - - and Why This Is Africa's Moment

[African Arguments] Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders.

Global hunger declines again but progress remains uneven across regions

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025 showing that progress is possible, but gains remain fragile and far too slow to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal...

The World We Inherit: Why the SDGs Are More Than Just Numbers

Imagine waking up in 2050 and asking a simple question: What did our generation leave behind?The answer will not be found only in skyscrapers, stock markets, or technological achie...

Global Economic Upturn Led By Advanced Economies As Emerging Market Expansion Fades

Why global development needs a new approach to evidence and cost

What if development programs had to continually prove they were working—and change when they weren’t? CARE and UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action are building a partn...

Global robot programme launches as developing economies seek China partnerships

Global robot programme launches as developing economies seek China partnerships

NDPC report highlights economic gains, flags unemployment and service delivery gaps

The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has launched its 2025 National Annual Progress Report, painting a mixed picture of Ghana’s development by highlighting improveme...

‘Putting development at the heart of foreign policy’

Labour came into government facing the toughest economic inheritance in a generation. Ministers have had to make difficult… The post ‘Putting development at the heart of foreign po...

Africa: IFC, Industrial Policy and the Private Sector: Development Through the Lens of the Thiam Threshold

[allAfrica] From Project Bankability to Building Productive and Financeable Economies

Asia’s development moment demands big bets, not safe ones

There is a version of development work that looks responsible but accomplishes very little. It moves cautiously, funds what is already proven and prioritizes institutional comfort...

Multilateral development banks mobilise record $163bn in climate finance in 2025

Results suggest MDBs are on track to meet 2030 climate financing projections announced at COP29 Climate Summit

Can Business Growth Really Improve People’s Lives?

This is a question that we should ask ourselves while discussing SDG 8: Can business growth really improve people’s lives?With the term economic growth, we typically imagine GDP gr...

Free UN SDG Online Courses and SDG Foundations Pathway: Learn the 2030 Agenda, Sustainable Development and Global Challe...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a global framework for addressing poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, health, edu...

Tanzania reports progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

More than 824 civil society organisations and 1,000 private sector institutions participated in the preparation of the report, he said.

FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation

ROME, September 8 (IPS) - The world’s agrifood systems are under mounting pressure from economic uncertainty, climate change and persistent inequalities. Farmers, rural communitie...

New Approach to ‘Good Development’

The phrase ‘good development’ is one that is heard frequently across the industrial and logistics sector, writes Ian Romano, Vice President, Head of Land & Development at Prolo...

Financing Africa’s Digital Future: Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 30 (IPS) - Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach. Re...