Different AI architectures automate different modes of human reasoning, which correspond to very different parts of the ...

The recent Global Partnerships Conference was a welcome development but also a reminder of the liabilities shaping the UK’s domestic and international position. Both are often interdependent and ...

The mainstreaming of generative AI tools has led to a surge in new forms of gendered violence online. Online platforms multiply the scale of these harms by enabling the dissemination of images to vast ...

Increasing funding to local and national actors (LNAs) is one of the core humanitarian reform areas of the last decade. The Grand Bargain set out a collective commitment of 25% of humanitarian funding ...

This briefing paper by Global Risks and Resilience looks at how philanthropies can contribute to ensuring a just transition to net zero, through the extension of social protection to address poverty ...

China has been a major financier of African infrastructure over the past two decades, supporting large-scale projects in sectors such as hydropower, mining and rail. But this role is changing. As ...

In 2026, competition over critical minerals continues reshaping geopolitical risk, industrial policy and national security. From US project finance and EU strategic autonomy to China’s 15th Five-Year ...

Welcome to the latest issue of This Week in Macroeconomics, your essential analysis of key economic trends and the forces behind them. Happy New Year to all our readers! As we start the new year, our ...

The revised rating methodology adopted by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) suggests that multilateral development banks (MDBs) can lend much more for development while remaining AAA. These are exactly the ...

The EU has long been a leading actor promoting gender equality, setting global gender norms and consistently allocating more aid to this area than other donors. However, due to shifting political ...

Official development assistance (ODA) fell by 9% in 2024, with a further 9%–17% decline projected for 2025 (OECD, 2025). With global aid budgets under pressure, development finance institutions (DFIs) ...

The Road to Seville began in Addis Ababa a year ago, exactly where the last Financing for Development Conference was held in July 2015. Fast forward to now, and UN member states have agreed on a new ...