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In brief
Blended finance

Innovative funding models

Blended finance, with participation from the private sector, is becoming increasingly necessary for making investments in water infrastructure

Development finance

Climate finance and humanitarian aid

Forecasting and monitoring climate finance is very difficult

Review

Prosperity through the right ­institutions

The success of prosperous nations rests upon sound political institutions

Organised crime

Paradigm change

To protect people from harm, the Global Commission argues that drugs should be regulated not prohibited

Social cohesion

Good progress with further room for improvement

How well India is doing in terms of fighting poverty depends on what yardstick is applied

SDGs

Fragile statehood deserves special attention

Fragile statehood makes Sustainable Development Goals harder to achieve

Finance

The SDGs and the private sector

Study of German civil-society organisations claims that the 2030 Agenda needs to be safeguarded against corporate interference

Hijras

History of a marginalised ­community

The British introduced the discrimination of transgender persons to South Asia

International finance institution

Dangerous transformation

World Bank can do more lending – and charges more interest rates

Poverty targeting

Six main methodologies

How to identify poor people for the provision of support

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.