Development Finance

Ties that Bind: World Bank Conditionalities in Pandemic Response

Reality of Aid Statement on the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings 2021November 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has created the deepest economic crash...

RE-IMAGINING AID: Ending Structural Racism in the Modern-Day Aid System

The Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific and Aid/Watch Australia are currently hosting a webinar series called Aid Talks, which discusses the...

The World Bank’s Development Policy Financing – Implications for a just, green and feminist recovery

Development Policy Financing is a lending instrument that supports targeted policy reforms and provides finance directly to a borrowing country’s...

The Cascade/MFD and a just and sustainable recovery: A first review in the pandemic context

Multiple crises caused by COVID-19 have created an unprecedented global shock. The WBG released a framework for supporting green, resilient...

Risks Abound, Issues Unaddressed in Global COVID Response and Recovery

Although the report acknowledges the USD 1 trillion funding gap developing countries are facing to properly respond to the pandemic,...

On Drastic Cuts to British Aid: Why less, when the world’s poor needs more?

On November 5th 2020, the British government announced that it would spend only 0.5% of its Gross National Income (GNI)...

Cancelling Debt in Asia Pacific: Tackling the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis

   Developing countries in Asia Pacific are trapped in the vicious cycle of debt. To say that the region...

On the 2019 ODA data: Donors must meet both aid quantity and quality amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Statement of the RoA International Coordinating Committee | 23 April 2020 (Download Statement with Spanish version) The recently published preliminary...

CSOs demand accountability, lament tokenistic CSO space in the FfD regional dialogue

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) held the First High-Level Follow-up Dialogue...