Projections show that climate finance has the potential to markedly increase total official assistance to developing countries over the next decade. Climate change will impact not only the need for foreign assistance, but also the financial mechanisms, modalities, agreements, and distribution...

Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at the country-level, where even rapid growth may not significantly improve the incomes of the poor. In some of sub-Saharan Africa's fastest growing countries, measured poverty rates have remained virtually...