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Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)

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Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

Informal settlements like this one in Jakarta often lack clean water supplies, waste collection or decent housing. There is an urgent need for investment in basic services and infrastructure (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

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Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

A stretch of the Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China. The region could be transformed by the Belt and Road Initiative (Photo: Marc van der Chijs, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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China's outward public investment – good news for the environment and tackling poverty?

Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

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Financial inequalities; defining our age

A migrant bamboo farmer harvests bamboo shoots in Tianlin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The UN PAGE conference was told China is reskilling one million workers from forestry into other industries (Photo: Nick Hogarth/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Highs and lows of the transition to an inclusive green economy

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Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

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Win–win in Belize: incubating community businesses that protect forests

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 1: Context

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 1: Key insights

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 2: Experiences

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 3: Sustainable finance

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Men fishing on the beach in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka

Webinar: No hidden catch: mainstreaming small-scale fisheries in national accounts

News, Nov 2018

Professor Rashid Sumaila addresses interested marine specialists from research institutes, the private sector and international organisations at Fish Night 5 (Photo: Zaiza Khan/IIED)

Fish Night 5: How subsidies are not always beneficial equally to fish and people

Article, Nov 2018

Women work in a knitwear factory

The future of work, technological change and global inequality

Blog, Nov 2018

Nairobi in Kenya is one of many fast-growing cities across Africa (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya, Creative Commons via Flickr)

African cities can raise more money. Kenya and South Africa offer useful lessons

Blog, Oct 2018

Elephants roam the plain in Kenya

Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

Project, Oct 2018

A Kiribati fisherman throws a net

Fish Night 5: Can subsidies work for fish and for people?

News, Sep 2018

This 500W solar system in a rural village in Uganda powers a home, a public broadcasting system, a barbershop and a video hall (Photo: SolarNow via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

What is 'aggregation' and how can it get climate finance working for the most vulnerable?

Blog, Jun 2018

Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India: many villages traditionally administered local forests for sustainable benefits. (Photo: goldentakin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Breaking down barriers to tenure-positive climate finance

Project, Mar 2018

Ghanaian women working in a micro enterprise shell cocoa, one of the commodities driving deforestation in western Ghana. These enterprises need targeted access to finance to adopt sustainable production systems that can contribute to halting deforestation and improving livelihoods (Photo: Tom Blomley)

Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises

Project, Feb 2018

Public-private partnerships and aid's 'private turn': addressing the investment law dimensions

Blog, Jan 2018

Construction of Hyderabad’s new metro. The first phase, covering 30km and 24 stations, opened in November 2017 (Photo: banjaxx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

Blog, Jan 2018

A stretch of the Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China. The region could be transformed by the Belt and Road Initiative (Photo: Marc van der Chijs, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

China's outward public investment – good news for the environment and tackling poverty?

Blog, Oct 2017