Financing Development
The Re-Define Financing for Development program seeks to go beyond the current debate and look towards both emerging problems as well as creative solutions to the enduring problem of mobilizing financial resources to finance sustainable development.
We specialize in applying the insights we have gained from our experiences in the private sector, in policy making and in multilateral institutions to help solve development challenges.
We have an excellent track record of delivering tangible development solutions and helping advocate and achieve development friendly outcomes such as debt cancellation, reform of the financial system and an improved international policy environment on helping tackle capital flight.
We write authoritative policy briefs, do intensive advocacy and help build capacity on key development issues. Re-Define works with governments, international agencies, central banks, trade unions and civil society organizations across the world.
Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor has played a central role in helping deliver Multilateral Debt Cancellation, make progress on Innovative Sources of Financing, helping tackle Illicit Financial Flows and making the Financial System more development friendly. He was one of the co-founders of the Tax Justice Network and helped institutionalize and internationalize the work of the network and served on its board.
Download some of our policy briefs and policy reports
This is the draft summary of our work on the unintended consequences of financial reforms on poor countries
Could the medicine harm the patient's friend (Final report coming soon)
This widely circulated policy brief charts out the policy options for tackling tax flight from developing countries
This report shows how FDI has for the most part not lived up to the hype and proposes policies to help improve its development footprint
Foreign Direct Investment - A Critique - Policy Report
This briefing paper written for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry shows how illicit financial flows are undermining development
IllicitFinancialFlows-ABriefingPaper.pdf
This report written for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry charts out the changing landscape that looms before institutions such as the World Bank and the Regional Development Banks
The changing landscape for IFIs
These seminar notes were presented before the UN Financing for Development conference in 2008