Financing global development has become a focus as negotiations draw to a close on a post-2015 agenda. Now the World Bank is partnering with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School to gather innovative ideas from youth around the world.
This month, Wharton, the bank and its Youth to Youth Community, a steering committee of young employees at the global financial institution, are launching what they call their Ideas for Action Competition. They are asking young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to submit their ideas for funding the future of development.
Competitors are encouraged to think about domestic resource mobilization, better and smarter aid, international private finance, the domestic private sector, and business and development innovations.
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
