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2025 – No time to waste on debt and development

by Kevin P. Gallagher
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An increasing number of Global South countries are now diverting growth and development spending to pay off insurmountable levels of external debts that ballooned as a result of a ‘polycrisis’ of external shocks from COVID-19, climate change, wars, and interest rate hikes. Upwards of USD 3 trillion annually is needed (USD 1 trillion in external financing) to put Global South countries on a sustainable growth path, yet the United Nations estimates that 3.3 billion people now live in countries...

Is the Paris Agreement dead? Report back from COP29 in Baku

by Olli-Pekka Kuusela
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COP29, which just concluded, gathered country delegations, observers, businesses, and NGOs for several rounds of heated negotiations and discussions. Since the groundbreaking adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, COPs have largely revolved around painstaking efforts to implement its articles. Mukhtar Babayev, the climate summit’s president, called this year’s COP the ‘moment of truth for the Paris Agreement’. In its State of the Climate 2024 Update, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

by José Antonio Ocampo
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The forthcoming UN Conference on Financing for Development, set for mid-2025, continues a great sequence started in Monterrey in 2002, followed up in Doha in 2008 and in Addis Ababa in 2015. The preparatory process is in full swing, with a broad agenda captured by the conference’s Elements Paper just made public by the co-facilitators. The agenda reflects a high level of ambition and builds on the—also ambitious—Addis Ababa Action Agenda. This year, UN Member States will need to act decisively...

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    CoP on Gender & Tax Explores Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models

    At the last meeting of the Community of Practice on Gender and Tax (CoPGT), held on 10th September 2024, the conversation focused on microsimulation...

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    A decade of growing inequality in Mozambique
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    2025 – No time to waste on debt and development
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    An increasing number of Global South countries are now diverting growth and development spending to pay off insurmountable levels of external debts...

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    Improving tax administration and data access – contributions to the Financing for Development Elements paper

    The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain, will convene in 2025, providing a global stage for countries...

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    The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development: What is on the agenda in 2025?
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    The forthcoming UN Conference on Financing for Development, set for mid-2025, continues a great sequence started in Monterrey in 2002, followed up in...

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    Is the Paris Agreement dead? Report back from COP29 in Baku
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    COP29, which just concluded, gathered country delegations, observers, businesses, and NGOs for several rounds of heated negotiations and discussions...

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    South Africa’s new retirement savings system: will it reshape financial security?

    Launched on 1 September 2024, South Africa's two-pot retirement system is designed to offer greater flexibility in managing retirement savings. This...

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    Beyond Ukraine and Gaza: Five consequences of overlooking other conflicts

    The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. The war in Ukraine and the escalating violence...

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    Mozambique in post-election turmoil: Economic policies that could make a difference
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    Turmoil following presidential and parliamentary elections in Mozambique has been severe. Preliminary official results from the 2024 elections...

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    How conflict and illicit economies undermine fiscal stability in Colombia
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    In post-conflict settings, the ability to collect taxes is essential for building a strong government and supporting long-term development. In...

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    Crescimento Inclusivo em Moçambique – reforçando a investigação e as capacidades
    Reflexão crítica sobre a formalização das empresas em Moçambique
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    Inclusive growth in Mozambique — scaling up research and capa
    Critical reflection on the formalization of firms in Mozambique
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    Understanding labour market inequality in Indonesia and India
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    Growing income inequality poses a major global challenge, even as the inequality between countries has shrunk due to rapid economic growth in nations...

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    Evidence for creating better jobs for the future: Report from the 2024 Jobs and Development Conference
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    With over 1.2 billion people expected to reach working age in the next decade, there is a dire need for the economy to support global employment...

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    Does the Kuznets Curve still matter 70 years on? Yes! Here’s why

    Seventy years ago, Simon Kuznets was immortalised by his finding that inequality rises first and then falls later—the hypothesis widely known as the...

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    Are China and India highly unequal countries?

    ‘The Number of Countries with High Inequality’ is the World Bank’s newest inequality indicator, one which it says will guide work on its agenda to...

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