In the 20th century, international cooperation was characterized by a grand conceptual separation between so-called “developed” and “developing” countries. Developed countries...
Topic: Financing development
Reimagining ways to achieve SDGs – innovations in finance and digitalisation
Royston Braganza is a CEO of Grameen Capital which aims to provide debt financing to social enterprises across sectors such...
Economic recovery in the post-pandemic world
How will the world economy look like after the pandemic? Will governments take initiative to reshape their economies to better...
Finance for the people
The finance sector of Western economies is the product of a ‘bottom-up’ process, in which institutions evolved to serve the...
Beyond crowdfunding: power of crowd in development
Development assistance in a new world
Extreme poverty has been halved and people have never been richer, healthier or better educated. More than 600 million people...
How reduce poverty – aid that works
During the lecture, professor Hulme introduced ideas from his recently published book “Just Give Money to the Poor”. In this...
Lessons from 50 years of aid giving
During her talk prof. Lancaster highlighted the issues that a new donor country should take into consideration in building its...