Tancrède Voituriez

The SDGs turn the page on the MDGs. They aim to place both rich and poor economies on sustainable development trajectories over the next 15 years. Is this idealistic or realistic?

The scale of financing needs for sustainable development estimated by the United Nations exceeds a thousand billion dollars a year. ODA looks like the last coins emptied from a money box in comparison. The conference on financing for development that will be held in Addis Ababa in July must lead to financing options that meet the new challenges and specify the modalities for the mobilization of the complementary billions to ODA. A revolution? The reality could well be that everything will change without anything changing, under the sky of Addis Ababa, like under the skies of Monterrey and Doha during the previous editions.