Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
It has long been clear that delivering on the SDGs and global climate goals at the necessary scale requires a large step-up in financing from private sources. Yet, despite many promising ideas, success has been modest so far. Based on consultations with official agencies and market players, this Policy Brief …
This paper discusses various ways through which Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) can mobilize private capital. The paper provides insights into innovative de-risking mechanisms and structures, to catalyze private finance for climate investments. To understand how MDBs can become 'mobilizers', it teases out the specific features from these mechanisms that could …
This Policy Brief explores the scale and nature of commercial opportunities from adaptation to climate change, whilst stressing that adaptation to climate change is also a public good. It samples some enterprises in the real economy in India that produce adaptation goods and non-financial services, such as flood forecasting and …
The Gambia’s economy continued to recover in 2022, albeit at a subdued pace in a sluggish global economic environment. Real GDP increased by 4.3 percent (1.8 percent in per capita terms) in 2022, unchanged from 2021, when economic growth was recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic following a sharp deceleration to …
Central banks, financial institutions, and large companies are increasingly embracing green finance and investment to meet climate goals and achieve carbon neutrality. Global Climate Challenges, Innovative Finance, and Green Central Banking provides a comprehensive and timely analysis of key trends in climate finance, blended finance, debt-for-climate swaps, and green monetary …
The Ministry of Commerce & Industry has notified the Special Economic Zones (Third Amendment) Rules, 2023. An amendment has been made to the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006. A new rule 29B has been inserted to the existing rules. The rule outlines the procedure for importing, exporting, procuring from or …
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause 41 million preventable deaths each year, approximately six times the number of people who have died from COVID-19 so far. The estimated economic loss resulting from the five most common NCDs is US$2 trillion annually, more than the nominal GDP of most countries in the G20. …
This report explores the role of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments for enabling renewable energy investments in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries by examining empirical evidence from several projects in the region. Renewable energy has been one of the most successful sectors in using limited public funds to …
Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices across the continent. Drawing on the most recent statistics, the analysis of development dynamics aims to assist African leaders in reaching the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 …
In 2022, G20 leaders acknowledged the need to rapidly transform and diversify energy systems while implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change. The expansion of renewable electricity generation can help address these goals but will require substantial investment. In around half of the G20’s emerging economies, stateowned electricity utilities are …
Tax Transparency in Africa is a key output of the Africa Initiative, a programme established in 2014 to ensure that African countries are equipped to exploit the latest improvements in global transparency, to better tackle tax evasion and other illicit financial flows and ultimately improve domestic resource mobilisation to support …
This document aims to help address a growing demand for guidance on how companies can take responsibility for their emissions by contributing to climate action and the overarching global goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement. The objective is to increase understanding of the climate contribution approach and provide a common …
This report reviews the physical and financial performance of 56 reporting State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) in India during the financial year 2017-18 and 2018-19 in comparison with that of 2016-17. 56 out of 62 SRTUs have been analysed in this document. Thus, a major part of the SRTU ecosystem …
This paper outlines why there is need for better information on financial needs and introduces nine exploratory principles to consider in the context of international support to achieve net zero targets. The outlined principles offer a starting point for understanding and defining the finance and support needed to achieve the …
The oil and gas industry has some of the best and most cost-effective opportunities to reduce methane emissions. The potential to do so is clear. Some countries and companies have already demonstrated that achieving near-zero emissions from oil and gas operations is technically and economically possible. There are a growing …
This discussion paper gives a brief overview of the methodology, including an analysis of the required rate of equity return or debt for solar projects, by country, under current cost-of-capital environments. While specific rates can vary considerably depending on conditions at the time of project finance needs, the overall take …
Children are being failed by climate funding commitments, despite bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, according to this new report from members of the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition; Plan International, Save the Children, and UNICEF. Just 2.4 percent of key global climate funds can be classified as …
Six monthly progress report by the state of Meghalaya on OA 606 of 2018 (Compliance of MSW Management Rules, 2016). Meghalaya has taken several steps to improve the solid and liquid waste management scenario in the state. All efforts have been made to collect the requisite committed fund to meet …
India’s ambitious climate commitments for 2030 and its Net-Zero target for 2070 signal a need for rapid decarbonisation and low-carbon economic growth. The transition to low-carbon technologies will require established industrial players as well as startups seeking to establish their niche in multiple climate tech sectors to adapt to the …
This special report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) examines how to scale up private finance for clean energy transitions by quantifying the investments required in different regions and sectors to build modern, clean energy systems, including achieving universal access. The new global energy economy …
