UNGA Guide 2022This event is co-hosted with ODI. In 2021, G20 members created an independent panel to evaluate whether multilateral development bank (MDB) shareholder capital is being used efficiently and to understand whether MDBs can lend more without threatening their long-term financial integrity. This was in response to a growing sense among policymakers that MDBs need reforming...
Governments all over the world are facing a fiscal crisis. Tax revenues fell during pandemic-induced lockdowns, while public spending increased. Now soaring commodity prices – oil, gas, wheat, palm oil, iron ore – mean that many governments are urgently cutting taxes further or increasing spending to help businesses and households pay for essentials. Well-designed subsidies...
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES This high-level event will serve to review the progress made by the private sector in advancing the ICPD agenda thus far, reflect on the commitments made and progress of implementation, challenges associated with mainstreaming women and girls issues in the workplace and the key priorities remaining as we look to ICPD at...