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DT 4 / 2025

Finland’s unique zero-cost ODA scheme turns toward private asset managers

A new strategy for Finland’s loan and investment facility opens for engagement with private investment funds. The current portfolio, invested via multilateral banks and development finance institutions (DFIs), amounts to roughly EUR 1 billion. The unique scheme provides returns to state coffers covering the cost of the financing and it is meant to be “deficit neutral” in the national accounts.

Business June 03, 2025

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High-level power play ahead of Gavi’s replenishment

At a time when aid budgets are being slashed across the board, the Vaccine Alliance Gavi - the financial...

News May 29, 2025

Donors reject Israel’s ‘new model’ for aid delivery to Gaza, affirming support for UN as lead humanitarian actor

A large group of mainly European donors distance themselves from the newly established Gaza Humanitarian...

News May 21, 2025

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The siege of Gaza and the rise of a militarized neoliberal relief architecture

Following a two-month-long Israeli blockage of relief from entering Gaza, the new private initiative...

Opinion May 19, 2025

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What the bees are telling us

Bees are speaking to us - not with sound, but through their presence, their absence, and their steady...

Opinion May 20, 2025

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Nobel laureate promotes venture capital approach to development finance

Michael Kremer, the American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, wants donors to...

News May 14, 2025

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Guarding the aid budget of the world’s most generous donor

For more than three years, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim (Centre) was Development Minister in Norway, which...

News May 12, 2025

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A new compact for global health: rebalancing power between African governments and donors

The closure of USAID and other aid cuts are not anomalies to be fixed, but symptoms of a model that has...

Opinion May 14, 2025

With US, UK pledges at risk, World Bank may be forced to downsize IDA21 envelope. China climbs to nr 5

Pledges made last year by the US and UK governments are no longer certain, a report on contributions...

News May 09, 2025

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The climate crisis is coming to our plates. Here’s how we need to support farmers

Smallholder farmers - many of them women - grow most of the food consumed in South Asia and sub-Saharan...

Opinion April 29, 2025

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