The question of how multilateral development banks (MDBs) must transform themselves to address todays most pressing global challenges will again be under the spotlight at next weeks World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech.Business as usual will no l

The High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly is about to get under way. This is a significant year because it marks a halfway point in the delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals), which were adopted in a 2015 UN resolut

Following the Israeli governments recent attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and against its own Supreme Court, our new Think Change podcast explores the growing threat to human rights for all those affected.According UN experts, the recent I

On the cusp of the Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda this episode explores the growing anti-rights agenda relating to women and sexual minorities.Womens rights and freedoms are being compromised and are under threat in many parts of the world. W

To mark Refugee Week, we highlighting the transformational impact that refugee leadership and expertise can bring to refugee responses.The importance of refugee leadership is now widely recognised. It is a key focus of the Global Compact on Refugees, whic

Next week, world head to Paris for the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.In the words of French President Emmanuel Macron, the Summit will provide a forum to take stock on all the means and ways of increasing financial solidarity within the South.&a

African countries have had close economic relationships with China for many years. China is a major trade and investment partner, technology and infrastructure collaborator and development finance player in Africa.This has challenged traditional Western d

The current terrible violence in Sudan comes almost twenty years to the day of when the genocide in Darfur started. Darfur was headline news at the time, but forgotten by the international community since. Only the recent escalation of violence between po

On the face of it, the global outlook for democracy looks pretty bleak. Democratic norms are eroding all over the world. According to International IDEA, half of the worlds democracies are in retreat.In Tunisia we have seen President Saied dismiss parl

In just over a weeks time, the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF will see the first formal session for a Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable.The problem of debt, and debt sustainability, has become one of the most urgent issues facing many low and