🌊 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: on 24 September, the UN General Assembly adopted the world’s first …

🌊 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: on 24 September, the UN General Assembly adopted the world’s first political declaration on sea level rise – unanimously, after months of negotiation. Small island states don’t automatically lose their statehood, sovereignty or maritime claims should their territory become uninhabitable. Palau’s […]

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: New York, Kigali, Berlin – three capitals, three entirely different …

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: New York, Kigali, Berlin – three capitals, three entirely different answers to the same question. As New York opened the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, Rwanda approved its new development cooperation policy running through 2050: the goal is over […]

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out β€” this time with a deliberately wider lens! At the centre: CAF, the Development Bank of …

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out β€” this time with a deliberately wider lens!At the centre: CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, is doubling its digital financing to $12bn (2026-2031) β€” for AI, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure. The message behind it is just as striking: ‘No single country […]

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo. The third expansion phase of the …

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo. The third expansion phase of the Sino-Egyptian industrial zone at the Suez Canal and a currency-swap agreement enlarged from 18 to 30 billion yuan show how China is evolving its Africa engagement β€” from pure lending […]

πŸ₯ The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC β€” and a notably self-critical Agenc …

πŸ₯ The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC β€” and a notably self-critical Agence Ecofin editorial asking why Africa still relies so heavily on external aid in health emergencies. Africa has built its own CDC, stronger labs, its own surveillance systems β€” […]

πŸ“Š The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: a German debate with a global punchline. CDU politician Nathanael L …

πŸ“Š The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: a German debate with a global punchline. CDU politician Nathanael Liminski warns in a Reuters interview that retreating from development cooperation would be a strategic mistake – backed by a KfW/GΓΆttingen study claiming every euro of German aid lifts exports by […]

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: Africa’s donor landscape is becoming visibly multipolar. Pan-Africa …

🌍 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: Africa’s donor landscape is becoming visibly multipolar. Pan-African Africa Finance Corporation leads a $2.5bn deal in Nigeria – and a day later, Moody’s reaffirms its A3 rating. At the same time, Japan’s JICA marks 20 years of partnership with Cameroon, announcing […]

πŸ“Š The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: KfW reports a record half-year – new commitments up 46% to €57.7 b …

πŸ“Š The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!This week’s focus: KfW reports a record half-year – new commitments up 46% to €57.7 billion. But look closer and a pattern emerges that should give development practitioners pause: most of that growth is flowing to Latin America and Asia. Africa is left behind, […]

πŸ“° CDG Global Development Brief – Issue 02 is out This week’s focus: the US has made its visa bond programme for business and tourist visas permanent …

πŸ“° CDG Global Development Brief – Issue 02 is outThis week’s focus: the US has made its visa bond programme for business and tourist visas permanent β€” up to $20,000, affecting 30 African countries. A tangible new hurdle for business travellers and delegations, coming right after last week’s AGOA uncertainty.Also covered: Flutterwave’s bank acquisition in […]

A chatbot in Rwanda answers 14 million inquiries. France prefers to promote the digital ecosystem rather than its own channels. China builds reach thr …

A chatbot in Rwanda answers 14 million inquiries. France prefers to promote the digital ecosystem rather than its own channels. China builds reach through TikTok and WeChat – focusing on perception rather than dialogue. Some donors are barely noticeable in public literature on this topic. In our new CDG Policy Brief, we compare how Germany, […]