Building capacity for sustainable innovation
Domestic resource mobilization is high on the development agenda, and revolves around how developing countries can raise more revenues through their own tax systems and natural resource management. The idea is to create a less aid...
https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2023/English /wpiea2023079-print-pdf.ashx Abstract: There are growing concerns that 25 years after the launch of the HIPC debt relief initiative, many low-income countries are...
Countries subsidize fossil fuels in 2 ways: undercharge for the product or for other costs such as damage to the planet and people’s health. Read the new analysis on the real cost of energy subsidies and what countries can do to...
In August 2021, the IMF allocated a bumper USD 650 billion crop of Special Drawing Rights to member countries and now the world is trying to figure out what this exactly means (and especially: what it doesn’t mean). Can countries...
Debt swaps refer to agreements between a creditor and a debtor, wherein the existing debt is replaced by a new instrument or commitment, entailing some financial relief for the debtor and a reallocation of cash flows towards...
Compilation of 2A4 technical notes by DEVCO A4 produced between November 2017 and December 2020 (before becoming INTPA E1)
The purpose of the note is to provide background and guidance on what delegations can do set the stage for their interaction with the EIB and other IFIs. The note describes the potential implications of EU operations on country’s...
Before the Systematic Land Title Registration (SLTR) project[1], acquisition of land assets involved extended delays, administrative obstructions and high costs in Kano State and in the majority of Nigeria. By operating a mapping...
