The world has made progress on shared challenges without the US before, and it can do so again – including at this month's Conference on Financing for Development. But success requires other countries ...

Multilateral development banks and international financial institutions argue that mobilizing private investment is crucial to meeting developing economies’ needs for climate and development finance.

As the G20 met in India this weekend, invitations to dinners during the G20 used the name Bharat instead of India. Bharat is a Sanskrit term which is already India’s second official name but is not ...

We get an update on the G20 summit, which welcomed the African Union as a permanent member and took place for the first time in India as the country faces criticism for bulldozing slums near the site ...

Other donor countries have not stepped up after Donald Trump terminated most US foreign-aid funding, even though the amounts required to plug the hole are trivial. The continued failure to provide for ...

The spotlight on US President Donald Trump’s tariffs is distracting attention from a broader strategic effort by the United States and other major powers to preserve their technological dominance at ...

The June 22-23 Summit for a New Global Financing Pact promised to catalyze a revolution in climate finance and empower the Global South. But it failed to meet its lofty goals, concluding without a ...

While the current debate about plastics often centers on reducing consumption, this narrow focus overlooks the urgent need to curb fossil-fuel-based plastic production. If corporate interests succeed ...

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Executive Secretary of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS). Professor Ghosh is a member of ...