Jun 29 2017
Perspective
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 they opened an enormous challenge: the estimated cost for achieving them is $5-7 trillion per year. In response to this …
Jun 26 2017
Perspective
The promise of innovative finance is to unlock billions—if not trillions—of dollars in private sector capital to address the world’s most critical challenges. This big and bold promise is making …
Jun 22 2017
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Mar 17 2017
This Feasibility Study proposes and evaluates a simple, yet fundamental change to the structuring of independent power projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to the way in which financial and credit …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Jan 31 2017
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Oct 27 2016
Perspective
I have spent the last few weeks thinking about zombies—and not just because of Halloween. Why, you may ask? The Rockefeller Foundation is an impact investor through our portfolio of program-related …
Oct 17 2016
Perspective
As urban leaders meet in Quito this week for Habitat III, the gathering marks the 20-year anniversary of the second Habitat conference, and the 40-year anniversary of the first. In …
Aug 22 2016
Ending poverty and fostering sustainable development — the aims of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — will require some $3.9 trillion annually for the
next 15 years in developing countries …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Jun 07 2016
Perspective
Assessments of how governments and international organizations have dealt with global challenges often feature a familiar refrain: when it comes to funding, there was too little, too late. The costs …
Apr 14 2016
Perspective
India, Indonesia, and Vietnam alone are home to over 950 million impoverished individuals—a number that amounts to more than half of their cumulative population. Such a reality stands in stark contrast …