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Current Financing for Development Priorities Today
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 07 (IPS) - The forthcoming fourth United Nations Financing for Development conference must address developing countries’ major financial challenges. Recent setbacks to sustainable development and climate action make FfD4 all the more critical.
A Renewed Vision for Prosperity for Landlocked Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) - Over 570 million people live in the world’s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), spanning across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. These nations face unique and complex development challenges. Their lack of direct access to the sea, geographical isolation, limited infrastructure, and difficulty integrating into global trade and value chains hinder sustainable development and progress.
Who Will Save Nigeria's Coastal City on the Brink of Extinction?
- Inter Press Service
AYETORO, Nigeria, Jan 02 (IPS) - In 2021, Ojajuni Olufunsho, a 53-year-old resident of Ayetoro, a town along the Atlantic coast, southwestern Nigeria, saw her home swept away by the encroaching sea. What was once a spacious 10-room house, a sanctuary for Olufunsho and her five children, was swallowed by the relentless force of rising sea waters.
Food Crises Intensify in Winter Ravaged War Zones
- Inter Press Service
BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec 23 (IPS) - The days are short with bitterly cold rain in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, the largest Balkan country located south of the Ukraine. Over the border, temperatures in Kyiv will plummet to a daily average of zero in December as the Ukraine war grinds on.
Japanese Bank Criticized for Financing Mozambique LNG Project Blamed for Displacement
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dec 23 (IPS) - Climate and environmental activists from Japan have criticized the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing the controversial Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project to the tune of USD 3 billion in a loan signed in July.
Targeting Transformative Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia-Pacific Subregions
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 23 (IPS) - In December 2024, Vanuatu experienced yet another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters—a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation’s capital, Port Vila, leaving 14 dead, over 200 injured, and thousands more affected.
A Billion Lives Off the Record: The Urgent Need for Legal Identity
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 20 (IPS) - Perhaps demographers would consider designing a new classification system to separate from their estimates of the world’s total population—eight billion plus—the billion humans who live without legal identity and, thus, are deprived from the most basic rights.
Power Arrives but the River Dries Up for Brazil's Amazonian Dwellers
- Inter Press Service
MANAUS, Brazil, Dec 20 (IPS) - The flow of the igarapé always dropped for three months every year, but now it has been dry for two years in a row, complains Maria Aparecida dos Anjos, looking at the trickle of water that when flooded reaches the stilts of her wooden house, 50 metres away and on a slope of more than 10 metres high.
Why is It So Hard to Change? Insights from the 2024 Human Development Report on Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec 20 (IPS) - As many middle-income countries in the world, Chile finds itself at a critical juncture. The country has made significant progress over the past decades in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction, yet many structural challenges remain.
Why Funders Must Step Up Financing for Development in 2025
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 19 (IPS) - As the global community races to close the staggering $4.2 trillion financing gap needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) emerges as a crucial juncture.
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