Over the past decade, development policy has witnessed a clear shift towards a poverty reduction agenda. Unsurprisingly, this has been accompanied by changes in views concerning development finance. A dominant refrain of the present agenda is that ‘traditional’ approaches to development...

With less than 10 years to go, much still remains to be done in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The present study analyzes the feasibility of reaching the goals in 18 countries in Latin American and Caribbean. The analysis is based on a comparative economy-wide model...

With only a few months left until the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international community is actively in the process of arriving at a global development agenda for the post-2015 period. One of the most significant features of the current discussion on the...

Purpose - This research aims to review literature on development finance and its challenge and to examine blended learning and insurance as a catalysts of development finance. In particular, this paper provides new insights and practical examples of blended finance and insurance....