As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to set back development progress for a generation, it is clearer than ever that serious structural changes are needed to safeguard communities around the world, and the planet itself. We still haven’t worked out how to provide public goods and services effectively and fairly across the world. That’s why I wish the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment the very best in their deliberations. The Global Public Investment approach is our best bet for modernising international public finance for the 21st century.
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International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of “aid” is outdated and ineffective. The concept of Global Public Investment (GPI) was developed to make the case that, because of its unique characteristics, concessional international public finance continues to have a critical role in responding to current and future global challenges, but that it has to evolve fit a new context. This is not just about transforming the aid debate: it represents a new paradigm of fiscal policy for the 21st century.
Joep Lange Institute
CIVICUS
Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
Development Initiatives
Partners in Health
Lead at UNU-IIGH