Special issues

Financing Development

2025 marks a momentous year for financing development, notably in Africa. 10 years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda following the third international conference on financing for development (FFD-3), the 4th edition of the event will be held in Seville, Spain. In parallel, for the first time, the Group of Twenty (G20) is chaired by an African country, which placed financing for sustainable development as one of its policy priorities. The context where these events take place is particularly sensitive for the continent, as a number of countries are grappling with shrinking fiscal and macro-economic space.

Tapping into its multinational expertise and embracing an African and New South perspective on these issues, the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) has invested in research on a number of topics relating to financing for development, including climate finance, debt-for-climate swaps and debt relief, diaspora bonds, domestic resource mobilization (DMR), and the reform of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs), multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the International Financial Architecture (IFA) at large.