Developing countries will be severely affected by the financial crisis. Emerging economies are already suffering from capital outflows and a sudden credit stop. In many low-income countries the financial crisis is exacerbating the ongoing food price crisis, which has already had disastrous...

The development finance system is becoming increasingly complex. New actors and instruments are being created with enormous speed and ingenuity. Yet the multilateral development banks still account for a large share of the public resources used for development finance. Of these, the World Bank...

Der Sachs-Bericht ist innovativ, denn er entwickelt Strategien zur Dynamisierung der Ökonomien der ärmsten Entwicklungsländer mit „Investitionen in die armen Bevölkerungsschichten“. Er zeigt Ansätze für „pro-poor growth“-Politiken. Die internationale Entwicklungspolitik sollte...

Earmarking financial contributions for specific geographic, thematic or other priorities has emerged as an important modality for funding multilateral development organisations. Earmarking has had positive consequences, such as the mobilisation of resources for multilateral organisations and new...