The report highlights that current blended finance approaches are failing to achieve the SDGs, focusing too much on mobilizing additional funds rather than embedding SDGs in economic systems. It calls for reshaping the financing architecture by placing SDGs at the center of planning, using public investment pipelines to guide private investments, embedding SDG-driven conditionalities in public-private partnerships, and effectively utilizing existing public funds.
Author: Mariana Mazzucato (2025). Reimagining financing for the SDGs: from filling gaps to shaping finance. UN DESA Policy Brief, No. 170, Special issue. New York: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs; UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs; University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. January.
Source: https://desapublications.un.org/policy-briefs/un-desa-policy-brief-no-170-special-issue-reimagining-financing-sdgs-filling-gaps
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