From FfD4 commitments on digital finance to concrete policy action

By Allgemein, Future of Globalisation, , , ,
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The Compromiso de Sevilla, the outcome document of the 4th Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) highlights the importance of digital technologies for financial inclusion. It outlines three central insights – concerning financial inclusion, consumer protection and regulations, and competition rules – that provide general guidance for policy-makers with regard to digital finance. These considerations point in the right direction as they adequately reflect the fine line between maximising benefits from access to digital financial services (DFS) and mitigating negative, unintended consequences. …

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FfD4 Outcome Document: What should we make of the Compromiso de Sevilla?

By Allgemein, Future of Globalisation,

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On Tuesday, June 17, the FfD4 Preparatory Committee approved the Compromiso de Sevilla as outcome document of the FfD4 conference. The agreement came surprisingly early, arriving almost two weeks before the start of the conference in Seville. The document itself is lacking in many respects. However, achieving an agreement supported by all countries except the U.S. is, in the current situation, already an achievement.…

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MDBs at FfD4: More Attention, Few Breakthroughs?

By Allgemein, Future of Globalisation

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have played a central role in financing sustainable development for over eight decades. Their growing prominence in international development cooperation is evident in the First Draft of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) Outcome Document, where they are mentioned over 40 times—a fourfold increase from the Addis Ababa…

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Digitising – and thus (re)shaping – collective memory

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Archives are the institutions of memory: categorising information about the past, they systematically store, preserve, and provide historically valuable records. This systematisation makes archives more resilient than what human memory can achieve, since humans recall information about a specific memory based on its “semantic” associative content. For science, archives “lay the foundations for future research…

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Towards a stronger shared climate and development finance agenda: what role for the FfD4?

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The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development comes at a critical moment for climate and development finance. Despite progress—such as increased climate funding over the past years, the establishment of the Loss and Damage fund, and the inclusion of climate targets in the World Bank’s mission—important challenges persist and remain unresolved. The negotiations on…

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