European Network on Debt and Development

…In early May, the UK-based organisation Global Witness published its latest report, Rubber Barons, which includes alarming findings about the impact of investments by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Vietnam’s financial sector. The report illustrates some of … →

…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 … →

…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 … →

…The International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the World Bank’s private sector lending arm – now accounts for more than one third of the World Bank’s work. It has investments of almost $20 billion a year – and about half of … →