Infrastructure financing in Zim: Can diaspora bonds provide an alternative?

IN 2015, global leaders convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at a conference on financing for development. Seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) along with 139 targets were adopted as guide posts to framing national development strategies until 2030.

SDGs endeavour to induce coherence between UN member States through working towards common targets to reduce poverty, building capability for food self-sufficiency, enhance quality of health service systems, improved quality of education, narrow the expanse of inequality, promote economic prosperity, working towards global peace and justice, mitigating the adverse consequences of climate change, and more importantly, striving towards innovation and accumulation of sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

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