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The third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) continued on Wednesday, with high-level statements in plenary and multistakeholder roundtables on “Ensuring policy coherence and an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development” and “Global partnership and the three dimensions of sustainable development.”

Africa is likely to benefit from weak global growth by attracting more investment that will drive its development, experts said at a financing conference in Ethiopia on Wednesday.

For four days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet".

For five days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet".

For five days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet".

La question de la fiscalité a dominé la troisième Conférence sur le financement du développement tenue à Addis Abeba du 13 au 16 juillet 2015. Pour le Bissau Guinéen Carlos Lopes, vice président de l’ONU et secrétaire général exécutif de la Commission des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique, cette rencontre a jeté les bases d’un nouveau débat.

Addis Ababa -For four days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet".

Carlos Lopes está em Adis Abeba, capital da Etiópia, a participar da Terceira Conferência sobre Financiamento para o Desenvolvimento. Esta quarta-feira, ele discursou num evento sobre a transformação económica do continente.

“A mere 0.44% increase per annum in tax collection in African states can mobilise about 22 billion a year which can be used to finance development projects,” suggested Mr. Carlos Lopes, ECA’s Executive Secretary to delegates attending a side event in the margins of the ongoing Third International Conference on Financing for Development.

Participants in the forum on financing for inclusive and sustainable industrial development that took place yesterday on the margins of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development voiced their support for partnerships as the way to implement the post-2015 development agenda.

For four days, govt, industry and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss learn how to fund The Future for “People and the planet”.

For five days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet". The Third Financing for Development summit [#ffd3].

For five days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for “people and the planet”. The Third Financing for Development summit.aims to replace the United Nations Millennium Development Goals – aimed at ending extreme poverty – with a global ‘sustainable development’ agenda.

On 15 July 2015, at a summit of world government representatives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Third International Conference on Financing for Development final outcome text was concluded. A key proposal was rejected to set up an inclusive United Nations intergovernmental global tax body, where every country would have a seat at the table and equal say in reforming global tax policies.

World leaders are this week gathering at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 13 - 16 July to launch a renewed and strengthened global partnership for financing people-centred sustainable development.

This high-level event deepens the ongoing dialogue by focusing on what countries and the international community can do to capture and upscale these initial innovations.

A panel consisting of Kaberuka, Trevor Manuel (South Africa’s former finance minister), Carlos Lopes (executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa) and Daniel Zelikow (JP Morgan’s public sector group head) spelled out the estimates:

There is an urgent need to define new rules for financing sustainable development in the world, participants in the side event Regional Perspectives on Implementing an Ambitious, Transformative Sustainable Development Agenda agreed. The event was hosted on Tuesday, July 14 by the five United Nations regional commissions, of which ECLAC is one, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

« Une simple augmentation de 0,44 % par an dans la collecte des taxes dans les Etats africains peut mobiliser environ 22 milliards par an et peut être utilisé pour financer des projets de développement,» a indiqué Mr. Carlos Lopes, le Secrétaire Exécutif de la CEA pour les participants à un événement parallèle qui se déroule en marge à la Troisième Conférence sur le Financement du Développement...