Government and civil society representatives from around the world will converge on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July this year to discuss how to fund a new set of sustainable development goals that are broader and more ambitious than their predecessors.
This is potentially a very big “deal.” However, advance expectations for such massive gatherings are understandably muted, given the diverse array of actors and sometimes sharply divergent interests involved, alongside the sheer scale and complexity of the challenge.
There are four big topics in development finance where we feel concrete progress is nonetheless both desirable and feasible in 2015.
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About the authors
Homi Kharas
Homi Kharas is a senior fellow and deputy director for the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Formerly a World Bank chief economist, Kharas studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, including aid, the emergence of a middle class, the food crisis, global governance and the G-20. He served as lead author and executive secretary of the secretariat supporting the High Level Panel advising the U.N. Secretary General on the post-2015 agenda.
Annalisa Prizzon
Annalisa Prizzon is a senior research fellow in the Development and Public Finance program at global affairs think tank ODI (formerly the Overseas Development Institute) and ODI's lead specialist on multilateral development banks. She is a member of the U.N. Committee for Development Policy and a U.K. Development Studies Association trustee.
Andrew Rogerson
Andrew Rogerson is senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute. His main area of interest is the changing architecture of development cooperation, publishing extensively on the subject. Previously, Rogerson worked at the OECD and advised its development assistance committee; was head of the human development group at the U.K. Department for International Development; and spent 26 years on the staff at the World Bank.
