SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Done well, the initiative could leverage Canada’s strengths in finance, natural resources, infrastructure construction and engineering.

Above all, poverty reduction should be at the heart of the $300-million DFI.

The recently announced $300 million initiative could be the beginning of a new era in Canada’s contributions to boosting prosperity and reducing poverty in poor countries.

The decision to create a “development finance initiative” is one of the most overdue and most innovative elements of the government’s economic action plan.

Looking at the size of aid, Canada’s rank as donor continues to fall. Is it all bad news?

Making poverty history by 2030 will require massive increases in private investment, not just public aid, argues Brett House.

John McArthur on what to expect for development in 2015.

Brett House on why Canada needs to add development finance institutions to its aid toolbox.

Dr. Jamie Bartram on why we can’t continue building 20th century systems for 22nd century problems.

Official development assistance alone will not pay for the post-2015 goals, argue John McArthur and Homi Kharas. Private investment will be needed.

Aniket Bhushan asks how can Canada help shape the post-2015 sustainable development agenda.

The challenges facing Rwanda’s “false twin” are also an opportunity to lead the global development agenda from behind, argues Katrin Wittig.

Aniket Bhushan and Yiagadeesen Samy on the real lesson of the Millennium Development Goals and why it needs to be applied to the post-2015 discussion.

Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, on the important role of measurement in poverty eradication.

Kate Higgins on the need for a forum that fully embraces all three dimensions of sustainable development.

Robert Muggah on why the MDG High-Level Panel needs to take conflict, violence, and fragility seriously.

John Sinclair on why the most recent model for a Global Partnership on development is failing to reach its potential.

John Sinclair on why universality and tiering should be part of the post-2015 Millennium Development Goal conversation.

OpenCanada talked to the Managing Director of ICT Development Associates about how the spread of new communication technologies are challenging understandings of sustainability.

OpenCanada talked to the professor of global practice at the Munk School about re-imagining the relationship between corporations and sustainability.