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Development effectiveness: Because every dollar counts

Providers and recipients are paying increased attention to whether development finance is effectively tackling development challenges where support is most needed around the world. Now the OPEC Fund is following suit – with significant results
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Boosting access to finance for local businesses in Kosovo

New €15 million loan is OPEC Fund's first private sector operation in the country
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2025 – A Year of Momentum, Innovation, and Meaningful Progress

In 2025, the OPEC Fund delivered record results, expanded its global reach and strengthened partnerships with countries and institutions around the world.
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“The debate about whether the energy transition is possible is behind us”

IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera on why renewables will succeed even without “the luxury of time” and how his institution helps developing countries escape the “triple penalty” of policy, capital and infrastructure
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What are COPs for?

As the world gathers in Belém for the latest UN climate summit, the challenges could not be greater, but expectations could hardly be lower
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OPEC Fund will provide up to $1 billion for water, transport and renewable energy in Azerbaijan
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Close to the tipping point?

The race to net zero is not going as planned and the point of no return is getting nearer and nearer. Experts, though, are not entirely sure where, exactly, that point is
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Searching for scale in sustainable development

“Everybody’s talking about the trillions that are missing, but too few people are talking about what needs to be done on the ground,” argues Professor Anthony Bartzokas
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On the rocks

It’s the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, yet opportunities to save them are melting away
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OPEC Fund and IDB launch new facility to boost infrastructure investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Preventing the Amazon from reaching a tipping point

The world’s largest rainforest is under threat like never before. The consequences will be felt everywhere
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The inside story

The journey from consensus to collective action is long and winding. Human relations play a crucial role in smoothing the path, says our author, the former UAE Chief Climate Change Negotiator at COP28
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More than a tree

Historians may disagree about its origins, but for many people the olive tree carries immense emotional value of history, identity and rootedness
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E&S: Strengthening safeguards, building capacity

OPEC Fund and AfDB join forces for Africa to help countries close gaps, learn from peers and build a stronger foundation for sustainable development
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Moving the development needle

Shared challenges demand shared innovation: The Sevilla Platform for Action endorses the OPEC Fund’s Island Resilience Facility
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Development News 2025 Q3
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Mission to Maldives boosts relations

President Alkhalifa visits the Small Island Developing State as OPEC Fund considers new projects
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Private Sector on tour

Ramping up investments in Uzbekistan and marking AIIB’s first decade
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New milestone agreements with Kyrgyz Republic

Mission to Central Asia led by President Alkhalifa
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A new perspective on development

The essay collection A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development makes a powerful case for defining a new role for the state in the economy rather than abandoning it
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“You have bigger power when you are more”

A rural development project in Lesotho is creating sustainable livelihoods

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