European Network on Debt and Development

…By Stéphanie Colin and María José Romero Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are high on the development agenda and they are increasingly being promoted as a way of closing the infrastructure financing gap in developed and developing countries alike. Given the complexity … →

…Hardly a day passes by without EU leaders issuing new promises that they will clamp down on tax crimes and tax havens. Eurodad has written three short notes on why and how EU politicians can live up to their promises … →

…This article was also published on the Vice Versa Magazine. A debate on the role of business in development cooperation last Thursday, 11 April in Amsterdam, raised one particularly revealing question for me: is it possible to reconcile two unrelated … →

…By María José Romero, Eurodad and Gustavo Hernández, Alop An April seminar on the “Evaluation of the European Union’s support to private sector development in third countries” showed that much more needs to be done to maximise the impact of … →

…By Bodo Ellmers and Jeroen Kwakkenbos The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development. The different Communiqués released during the … →

…Don’t miss the major opportunity for information sharing, analysis and strategy session of the year: the Eurodad biennial conference, which takes place in Prague from 3-5 June! The deadline for registration is Tuesday, 30 April. Co-organised by Eurodad Czech member … →

…Development Finance Watch, Issue 115

…By Berber Verpoest, Counter Balance and María José Romero, Eurodad Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets are under pressure – but never fear, the private sector is here to fill the gap. In short, that’s the EU’s answer to declining ODA … →

…As the UN’s high-level panel on the post 2015 development agenda prepares to meet in Bali, it is clear that no worthwhile development goals can be met without fundamental changes in the international financial and economic system. This includes exposing … →

…Last week, the European network of International Financial Institutions (EuroIFInet) watchers met in Brussels for their biannual strategy meeting. The meeting offered the chance for representatives from 20 European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to share information updates and to coordinate actions ahead … →