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What could be financed instead of debt: Many countries spend more on interest payments than on education. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Financing for Development Conference

Ideas to reform debt policy

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
The BRICS+ countries play a central role in global development. They are investing in major infrastructure projects, for example. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Multilateralism

The role of BRICS+ in development and climate finance

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by André de Mello e Souza
Money from development financing is used to secure vital sectors such as food and health. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Our view

Financing lives

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Where ecosystems are still intact, funding is needed to preserve them. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Climate finance

“Cutting funds won’t save them”

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by Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The international community must bridge differences and continue to invest in the future together. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

International cooperation

In a time of disruption, we still have prospects

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by Achim Steiner
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling USAID, in Washington in February.

International cooperation

The destruction of American development policy

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by Stephan Klingebiel
The coal age never ended: trucks at a Chinese port in 2024.

Book review

“Energy transition” does not mean what you think it does

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by Ipil Monica Baski
Climate related damages are getting worse: burnt houses in Los Angeles in January 2025.

Global environment

Irreversible climate disaster

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by Roli Mahajan
Where will the world be heading if the economy continues to grow?

Research

Why and how we should question growth

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by Daniele Malerba
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