Sentence examples for ffd from inspiring English sources

The financing for development (FFD) conferences of the past have been commitment-fests, but with no serious follow-up mechanisms.

The UN, which organised the financing for development (FFD) summit, described "a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges".

But, to be fair, the FFD process has never really been about making concrete commitments, let alone pledges of money.

The opportunity lies in the relationship between the FFD commitments and the "means of implementation" in the SDG agenda.

As the third UN financing for development (FFD) conference gets under way in Addis Ababa today, all the talk in the world of international development is of whether the meeting will be a "success" or a "failure".

"We are disappointed that the FFD process has neither yielded new resources to fund the investments needed to end poverty nor taken meaningful steps to address problems in the international financial system," said Danny Sriskandarajah, the group's secretary general.

This move will only work if FF can move decisively into the SDLP space.

Another argues that: "The challenges would nonetheless be formidable, a fact acknowledged by one FF councillor/blogger in a post last year.

FF alleges that the prince was involved in the torture of detained prisoners during the pro-democracy uprising of 2011.

This week, in the bank's luxe 30th-floor offices overlooking Bangkok, they told reporters that Thailand would remain the slowest-growing economy in South-East Asia till 2016 (see page 153, ff, of their report).

Euripides' Heracles 1341 ff.