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Tuesday, 30 June 2015

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Here are the stories and news from our August 2015 Edition

Workers take measurements while laying the tarmac on a new road being built near Arusha, Tanzania. Africa needs funds for such development projects. Panos/Frederic Courbet

Cover Story

Funding the planet's future

Will the billions required for the SDGs be sustainable?

Panos/Frederic Courbet

Financing for Development

·         A partial view of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam under construction.   Reuters/T. Negeri

Mobilizing domestic resources is a key source of finance

·         Cables and wires in storage at Reroy Cables. The Ghanaian company augmented its capital with a bank loan secured with the help of the International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank. Panos/Nyani Quarmyne

Countries may be borrowing too much and too fast

·         Health workers clean hospital scrubs and protective gear at the Island Clinic for Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia, during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.   USAID/Morgana Wingard

Ebola's most affected countries lobby for funding for hospital infrastructure

·         Solar panels being cleaned at the Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Combined Cycle Thermo-Solar Power Plant in Morocco.  World Bank/Dana Smillie

A way of bankrolling a clean energy revolution

·         Wu Hongbo, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Development and the Secretary-General of the Financing for Development Conference.  UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Countries to choose targets best suited to local conditions

·         A table banking session in Samburu, Kenya.   DPPS

Women find innovative ways of financing projects

·         Designer Kiki Cardow adjusting a display at her boutique in Lagos, Nigeria. Panos/ Andrew Esiebo

Financing for women in Africa has remained stubbornly "micro"

·         A MicroEnsure agent talks to microfinance clients about microinsurance at a group meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  Alamy/David Dorey

To lift the poor from poverty, create jobs, not loans, critics say


Also

·         Factory workers package products at Decorplast, a manufacturer and regional exporter of injectionmoulded plastic goods in Ghana. Panos/ Nyani Quarmyne

Deliberate trade policies could lead to growth

·         A view of streets and high rise apartment buildings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Panos/Sven Torfinn

An assertive nation flexes its economic muscle

·         Haddis Tadesse, middle, with Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tedros Adhanom, left, and Bill Gates.

·         Cashew nut processing and production factory in Sotria B Sarl, Banfora, Burkina Faso.   Alamy/Joerg Boethling

Local processing could boost revenue in Côte d'Ivoire

·         Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of Statistics South Africa.  ITU/ R. Farrell

·         A shopper buys Snow beer at a supermarket in Yichang city, central Chinas Hubei province.  AP Images /Yi chang

African countries have poured over $14 billion in investments








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