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Giorgi wollte in Salzburg 12’900 Euro von seinem Konto abheben. Was er dann von der Bank bekommt, kann er selbst kaum glauben. Sie händigen ihm mehr als 120’000 Euro aus!

Wolodimir Selenski hat gerade Ärger an allen Ecken und Enden: Trump droht wegen Angriffen auf russische Energieanlagen, Klitschko wehrt sich gegen Vorwürfe zur Vorbereitung auf den Winter und Südkorea ruft seinen Diplomaten zurück. Im Hintergrund wartet zudem ein weiterer mächtiger Mann auf seine Chance.

Am Samstagabend hat die Kantonspolizei Graubünden in Cinuos-chel drei rumänische Staatsangehörige in einem Lieferwagen kontrolliert. Im Fahrzeug fand die Polizeipatrouille mutmassliches Diebesgut im Wert von mehreren zehntausend Franken.

Ein Senior, der mit einer Schweizer Reisegruppe unterwegs war, ist seit zehn Tagen unauffindbar. Seine Familie hat einen Privatdetektiv engagiert.

Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis will represent the Eurogroup at the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Bangkok, Thailand.

Council approves conclusions on inclusive democratic participation, and societal and community resilience.

Der Zmorge gilt als die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages. Es gibt aber einige Lebensmittel, die zwar für den Start des Tages sehr beliebt sind, aber eigentlich nicht auf nüchternen Magen zu sich genommen werden sollten.

Wer bei der Familie Sala in Montespluga einkehrt, ist eine Weile über dem Berg. Der Albergo Posta mit seinem stilvollen Restaurant bietet dank Gastgeber Fausto Sala eine Weinauswahl, die kaum Wünsche offenlässt.

An den diesjährigen Swiss Indoors in Basel fährt ein hochkarätiges Feld auf. Neben Stan Wawrinka (41, ATP 142), welcher in Basel seine Karriere beendet, sind noch fünf weitere Schweizer mit von der Partie.

Sprengung um Sprengung entsteht in Norwegen der längste und tiefste Unterwasser-Strassentunnel der Welt. 26,7 Kilometer lang und bis zu 392 Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel soll Rogfast künftig zwei Küstenabschnitte verbinden und eine Fähre ersetzen.

Planned relocation, the process of moving a community from one area of residence to a new one in response to an environmental risk or threat, is an important option for climate change adaptation. Given the acute climate and environmental risks facing them, small island developing states (SIDS) have taken a leading role in developing policies and processes for planned relocation in response to these risks. This policy brief will look at how planned relocation works as an adaptation strategy in informal urban settlements and will examine the role of social cohesion in planned relocation processes. Fiji has become a regional leader in planned relocation policy, with the Human Mobility in Climate Change Contexts (HMCCC) project serving as a magnifier of Fiji’s existing expertise in planned relocation. Since 2017, the Fijian government and civil society in cooperation with the German and New Zealand governments have developed planned relocation standard operating procedures (SOPs) for helping villages in high-risk areas navigate the physical, cultural, social and economic costs of relocating to higher ground or a safer location. These SOPs have become a “gold standard” for other countries to learn from and emulate in their own planned relocation policies. 
The next step that the government is starting to undertake involves adapting the SOPs to informal urban settle­ments that are facing climate and environ­mental risks. Fiji’s informal urban settlements have faced a number of social, political and eco­nomic challenges over the years. These include serious issues with crime, land insecurity and historical political exclusion. Thus, along with the threats that come with climate change, particularly sea-level rise and flooding, any planned relocation policy for informal urban settlements has to simultaneously address trust in institutions, cooperation for the common good, and inclusive identity. The historical case of the Bainiose being relocated from central Suva to a suburb of Suva in the late 1990s offers guidance on how this can be done. 

Key policy messages

• Planned relocation for communities in urban settings requires long-term planning for services such as new public transportation connections, schools, secure land tenure and health facilities.
• Measures should be taken to build institutional trust with urban com­munities, who may lack the traditional mechanisms of chiefly or customary representa­tion that is present in rural settings.
• Community identity is often strong and can be a starting point for policy-makers and communities to identify sustainable options for relocation.

Dr Anawaite Matadradra is a Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific.
Dr Sevanaia Sakai is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific.
Unaisi Raileqe is a Project Officer at the Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding.
Dr Timothy Fadgen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland.

Laut der SVP verwenden die kantonalen Justizämter die Härtefallklausel «inflationär». Die Staatspolitische Kommission gab nun einen Gesetzesentwurf in die Vernehmlassung, der dies ändern soll. Besonders in der Westschweiz fällt er durch.

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This paper examines how additional private financial resources can be mobilised through the use of multilateral development bank (MDB) funds. It focuses on identifying the leverage potential of different financing instruments, improving their mobilisation efficiency, and examining how greater leverage can promote development outcomes while safeguarding the financial sustainability of MDBs. Its contribution is a comparative synthesis that brings together mobilisation mechanisms, differences in the public resources and risks underlying leverage ratios, and development impact. The analysis covers six categories: debt instruments, equity instruments, risk-transfer instruments, guarantees, advisory services and policy-based lending. It compares their characteristics, including the level of intervention, mobilisation mechanisms, constraints addressed and time horizons. It also distinguishes transaction-level private direct and indirect mobilisation from broader catalytic effects arising through market development, institutional strengthening and policy reforms.
The comparison shows why instruments cannot be assessed by a single leverage ratio. MDB lending, guarantee exposure and expenditure on advisory services represent different commitments of public resources and risk. Similarly, private finance linked to a transaction cannot be measured in the same way as subsequent investment enabled by policy reform. Available evidence therefore indicates differences in mobilisation potential rather than an established empirical ranking of instruments. The paper argues that leveraging efficiency can be increased by moving to more powerful approaches and by better targeting instruments to binding investment constraints. It examines how this can enhance the development impact and financial viability of MDB/DFI portfolios through two channels: a financial/portfolio efficiency channel and a development/catalytic channel. However, a high leverage ratio does not necessarily indicate superior performance. It may reflect investment in easier markets, weak additionality or an understatement of public risk. Conversely, a lower ratio may be consistent with greater additionality in a fragile market or pioneering sector. These findings highlight the importance of assessing leverage alongside additionality, development impact and financial sustainability. Using concessional funds through blended finance instruments can be costly and can reduce the resources available for other development priorities.
Therefore, the development finance institutions (DFIs) must strictly apply the additionality principle and further operationalise the principle of using minimum concessionality. If interpreted too generously, there is a risk of creating leverage without sufficient development impact. The paper provides specific recommendations for refining the use of financing instruments and integrating transaction-level support into a broader market-shaping approach that draws on the strengths of policy-based lending and technical assistance. Higher leverage should not be pursued as an end in itself; its value depends on its contribution to additional development impact.

Dr Jürgen Karl Zattler is a distinguished non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC and a non-resident research fellow at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn. Until October 2023, he was Director General at the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Prior to that, he served as the Executive Director representing Germany at the World Bank.

Des experts et responsables russes plaident pour un partenariat avec l’Algérie qui dépasse la simple livraison de produits finis. Ils proposent de localiser les technologies […]

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Certaines personnes n'ont besoin que de quelques minutes de soleil par jour en été, tandis que d'autres en nécessitent beaucoup plus.

Auch unter dem neuen Trainer Slavisa Jokanovic findet Basel nicht in die Spur zurück. Der FCB geht in Vaduz 3:0 unter.

An der Wall Street klettern die Gewinne auf Rekordhöhen. Davon profitieren Tausende Banker, die mit enormen Bonuszahlungen rechnen können. Auch die UBS-Top-Shots dürften kräftig mitverdienen.

Nico Hülkenberg hält Mercedes-Pilot George Russell in Schach und wird beim Singapur-GP Achter. Teamkollege Gabriel Bortoleto scheidet früh aus und geht zum siebten Mal in Serie leer aus.

7000 Dollar Startgeld, 100'000 Dollar für den Sieger: Die Red Bull Rampage in Utah ist spektakulär und riskant zugleich. Rampage-Veteran Brendan Fairclough erklärt, weshalb sich das Abenteuer für die Fahrer trotzdem lohnt.