These factors could reverse development gains, it says.
But development gains from investment are not always automatic.
It has the potential to erode development gains, undermine economic growth and compound human security challenges.
Aids, malaria, TB and other diseases are reversing decades of development gains and lowering life expectancies.
We reduce our estimate of British Land's development gains on its London office development pipeline from 40p to 15p.
Maybe she'd seen something work – tangible evidence that aid and development gains, however difficult and incremental still do happen.
Businesses and financial markets can affect the sustainability of development gains in both positive and negative ways.
"The sheer scale of the crisis far outstrips the coping capacities of communities and the resources of governments, putting decades of development gains at risk".
Large government donors, NGOs and the private sector believe girls could play a big role in resolving poverty and making development gains through ICT.
He recently said, "we can divest and tax that which we don't want, the carbon that threatens development gains over the last 20 years … It's simple self-interest.
"Putting at risk development gains – potentially achieved over decades – is not good value for money nor does it live up to our commitments and responsibilities to partner countries.
