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Evaluation report

Oxfam Fair Financial Flows Evaluation: Executive summary

19/07/2019

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This report evaluates the Fair Financial Flows (FFF) programme managed by Oxfam Novib in collaboration with country offices, affiliates and partners and funded by Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, for a three-year period (2017–2019). The programme aims to promote greater Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), fairness and inclusivity of private and financial sector actors, […]

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Briefing note

Powering the Transition: World Bank and other IFI energy lending in Asia

10/10/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, the World Bank is holding its Annual Meetings in Asia. This is a region that will be key to the success of the global energy transition, and at the same time has much to lose if it does not happen fast enough, because its people are so vulnerable to climate change. The most […]

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Briefing note

IFI Energy Investments in Bangladesh: A way forward to SDG 7

21/05/2018

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Bangladesh is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, yet at the same time it has demonstrated climate leadership, particularly in pioneering solar energy for all. The government has committed to ensuring access to affordable and reliable electricity for all citizens by 2021. This briefing note examines how appropriate lending for energy projects by international […]

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Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

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Briefing paper

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful.

22/01/2018

14 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%. Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many […]

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Briefing note

Making Aid To Jordan And Lebanon Work: Aid effectiveness in middle income countries affected by mass displacement

20/04/2017

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Jordan and Lebanon collectively make up less than one percent of the world’s economy, but host around 20 percent of the world’s refugees. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenges that this presents and acknowledged that humanitarian assistance must be supplemented with multi-year development support. This briefing note presents a preview of key findings […]

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Briefing paper

Private-finance Blending for Development: Risks and opportunities

13/02/2017

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Aid donors increasingly seek to inject private-sector resources into development by ‘blending’ official development assistance (ODA) with private finance. There is little evidence of the development impact, and projects often do not align with country ownership, transparency and accountability. It is not always clear whether ODA subsidies are necessary. Blending could support pro-poor projects, such […]

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Research report

Blended Finance: What it is, how it works and how it is used

13/02/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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In recent years, ‘blending’ has become a common development finance term. The practice combines official development assistance with other private or public resources, in order to ‘leverage’ additional funds from other actors. There is some confusion about its meaning, how it works, and how it fosters development, as well as a significant lack of project […]

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Discussion paper

Raising the Bar: Rethinking the role of business in the Sustainable Development Goals

13/02/2017

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development gives business a significant role to play in efforts to achieve the SDGs, based on its ability to invest and innovate. However, for companies to truly contribute, they must move beyond current forms of engagement, abandon a narrow focus on the SDGs as an opportunity to increase corporate profits […]

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Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

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