Entwicklungsfinanzierung und Steuergerechtigkeit

After two years of virtual WhatsApp diplomacy, the United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) Forum was held again this year in-person and in the presence of the public at UN Headquarters in New York. The stakes were high. While the world´s countries are slowly and unevenly recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, new challenges have emerged, such as interest rate shocks and massive price increases for energy and food, which are having a particularly devastating impact in countries of the Global [...]

Die Debatte zu Entwicklungsfinanzierung in Zeiten multipler Krisen

Nach zwei Jahren virtueller WhatsApp-Diplomatie fand das Financing for Development (FfD) Forum der Vereinten Nationen dieses Jahr erstmalig wieder in Präsenz am UN-Hauptsitz in New York statt.  Die Anforderungen waren hoch. Kaum scheint die Coronakrise abzuklingen, sind neue Herausforderungen wie Zinsschocks und massive Preissteigerungen bei Energie und Nahrungsmitteln aufgetreten, die besonders in Ländern des globalen Südens verheerende Auswirkungen haben.

Bereits im Vorlauf des Forums hatte der neue Financing for Sustainable Development Report [...]

A group of 17 CSOs has issued an open letter to G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and the IMF calling for a new US$2.5 trillion issuance of reserve assets called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and reformed criteria for distributing them in a fairer way and according to needs.

Read the open letter here

Once in a decade, the UN convenes a conference on the least developed countries (LDCs) to negotiate a programme of action, consisting of political agreements and international support measures. Financing for development in all its dimensions is an essential component of these programmes. The process that led to the Fifth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries and the Doha Programme of Action took place under the difficult conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the limited financial space that LDCs had [...]

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Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the special reserve currency of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have the potential to become a key mechanism for financing a just transition to climate-resilient economies and supporting the COVID-19 recovery. Following its historic allocation of $650 billion in SDRs in August 2021, the IMF has proposed a Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) to facilitate the re-channeling of these resources to vulnerable countries.

As a part of the 2022 IMF and World Bank [...]

This briefing paper gives an overview of the current challenges in different development finance action areas. In the second part, we give an overview of the UN’s FfD process and of the international agreements on Financing for Development. Based on our analysis, we identify 10 key levers for financing sustainable development. With these, Eu­rope can make a substantial contribution to financ­ing for development and thereby to the successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development worldwide.

Das European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) hat heute gemeinsam mit der Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) einen Diskussionsentwurf für eine UN-Steuerkonvention nach dem Vorbild der Klimarahmenkonvention veröffentlicht.

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Von Bodo Ellmers

Zum Jahreswechsel hat Deutschland den G7-Vorsitz vom Vereinigten Königreich übernommen, und Indonesien die G20-Präsidentschaft von Italien. Beide Foren stehen vor großen Herausforderungen, die im dritten Jahr andauernde Coronakrise zu bewältigen und einen fairen und nachhaltigen Wiederaufbau zu gestalten. Zentrale Herausforderungen in der Entwicklungsfinanzierung sind der Umgang mit dem wachsenden Risiko von Schuldenkrisen, die faire Verteilung und sinnvolle Nutzung von IWF-Sonderziehungsrechten, sowie die Finanzierung von Impfstoffen und Pandemiereaktionen allgemein.

Die neuen Präsidentschaften

Die G-Prozesse als informelle Politikprozesse sind [...]

On August 23 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) performed the long desired payout of special drawing rights (SDRs) to the tune of 650 billion US dollars. Especially for countries of the Global South, the SDRs are a welcome cash injection. Unlike the EU and the USA with their economic recovery programs worth trillions, developing countries have so far only been able to mobilize few financial resources to cope with the impacts of the crisis, and for this reason too [...]

The G20 Summit in Rome takes place amidst heightened debt crisis risks. According to latest World Bank figures, the debt stock of low income countries (LICs), the world´s poorest countries, surged by a staggering 12% in 2020, reaching a new record high. Poor countries transfer an increasing share of their tax revenues to creditors, to service their debts. The situation will further deteriorate when the G20´s Debt Service Suspension Initiative expires in end of 2021 in addition to the resumption [...]