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Countries of the Global South have contributed to more than half of the world’s growth in recent years and trade among these countries has reached an all-time high, accounting for more than a quarter of all world trade, while the outflows of foreign direct investment from the South represent a third of global investment flows. [...]

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a deep institutional commitment to South-South cooperation (SSC), as reflected in the UNFPA strategic plan 2018-2021 that frames SSC as a crosscutting mode of engagement to deliver on the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. SSC interventions underpin all UNFPA thematic areas.  UNFPA commissioned its first [...]

Saudi Arabia’s 2020 Presidency of the G20 has given the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDBG) the opportunity to support, participate and contribute to critical world- shaping discussions, while presenting the value that Islamic Finance can add to global finance. This report aims to showcase the IsDB Group’s Global Advocacy efforts and its contributions to the [...]

IsDB is transforming and repositioning itself to meet the needs of its stakeholders by becoming a Bank of Developers – a development institution that not only provides financing but also plays a key role in connecting and engaging key stakeholders and partners to transform the development journey of member countries. The Bank will encourage innovation [...]

The concept of making markets work through global value chains requires fresh thinking about globalization and industrialization in a world that is changing rapidly, given what we witness today in terms of shifts in the global economy as well as the pace and breadth of technological advancements. Taking all these challenges into consideration, the Islamic [...]

In IsDB member countries, emissions from transport are projected to double between 2020 and 2050. Thus, urgent action is required to reverse this trend and to further increase the resilience of transport systems against the threats of climate change, especially in critically vulnerable IsDB member countries. To achieve this, we strongly believe that action is [...]

The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown have adversely affected the global economic activities. Given the global impact of the crisis, H.E. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, constituted a Working Group to study the impact of the pandemic on the Islamic finance industry. The Working Group, formed on 21 Sha’ban [...]

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has recorded, since its establishment, major successes in every sector of development, starting with education then agriculture, energy and infrastructure. IsDB has actively contributed to the transfer of knowledge in science and technology and has continuously and effectively participated in providing development assistance in the communities of member countries and [...]

This book – Inclusive Growth: Making Value Chains Work for Smallholder Farmers – aims to provide insights into this question and practical solutions for increasing the engagement of smallholders in profitable GVCs. The overall theme and the eight chapters of the book reflect the Islamic Development Bank’s 10-Year Strategy and its execution mechanism – the [...]

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), based on its experiences in both field and analytical work in SSTrC and through in-depth discussions and exploration, together with its member countries, has identified the main pillars of an effective national institutional framework—or a “national ecosystem”—for SSTrC. In order to contribute to the discussion on the importance of national [...]