Financing SDGs: Is humanitarian aid causing a diversion?
This article looks at how a higher flow of humanitarian assistance has influenced the development finance discourse.
Five Questions for New Metrics to Assess Development Effectiveness
There is an urgent need to revisit the metrics of assessing development effectiveness of development cooperation. It is underpinned by significant changes in recent times regarding the concept of development effectiveness, and the emerging new modalities of development cooperation.
More health research means more lives saved
Health research needs to include partnerships across different sectors and involve diverse stakeholders. Only then will it have real impact. [...]
The Elephant in the Room: Radicalisation in sub-Saharan Africa & Possible Remedies
Increasing conflict, violent extremism, and unprecedented levels of migration and displacement are shaping the present.
Debt and Systemic Concerns of the Developing Countries: Rising Debt in Nigeria
To achieve the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, governments need to align their fiscal policies to their development plans and put in place sound macroeconomic policies and sustainable debt management.
Transforming rural settlements, industries and the informal economy to eradicate poverty in Africa
Southern Voice’s network member Donald Mmari, Executive Director of REPOA shares African perspectives on SDG 1: Ending poverty in all [...]
Domestic Resource Mobilization: A Financing Option for Sustainable Development in Africa
First Posted by post2015 ⋅ May 22, 2014 The proposals from various consultations and discussions on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda suggest that [...]
Coming back to the neglected: Growth is indeed a fix to the achievement of MDGs, but…
First Posted by post2015 ⋅ April 10, 2014 As debates on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and on new goals after 2015 [...]
Financing future goals: Aid will not be a panacea for Africa’s development
First Posted by post2015 ⋅ April 3, 2014 The key to accomplishing the next round of development goals is a good financial scheme. [...]
Is the Current Booming Growth in Africa Worth Celebrating? Some Evidence from Tanzania
[row][third_paragraph] [/third_paragraph][paragraph_right] The paper finds a missing link in the relationship between growth and long term poverty reduction, which is perceived [...]
