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Sustainable Stock Exchanges: Urgent Need for Simple Metrics
The 4th biennial Global Dialogue on the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative, concluded yesterday (10/14) at the United Nations Geneva headquarters, unveiled the urgent need for all stakeholders – stock exchanges, regulators, investors, and businesses – to adopt simple, yet
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World Bank Group: Can Resource-Financed Infrastructure Fix the Natural Resource Curse?
By Håvard Halland, John Beardsworth, Bryan Land, and James Schmidt How can resource-rich countries ensure that a sufficiently large share of oil, gas, and mining revenues are used for productive investment rather than excessive or wasteful consumption? “Resource-financed infrastructure” (RFI)
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Deutsche Börse and Thai Exchange Join Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
The Deutsche Börse is the latest of a growing number of stock exchanges that have joined the United Nations-supported Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative aimed at encouraging listed companies to adhere to specific environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) guidelines.
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New UN Report Calls for Major Changes in Global Economic Governance, Management
Six years after the start of the global economic and financial crisis, the world economy has still not found a sustainable growth path, argues a new United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report released on September 10, 2014.
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Liquidity Glut, Infrastructure Finance Drought and Development Banks
The world economy faces huge infrastructure financing needs that are not being matched on the supply side. Emerging market economies, in particular, have had to deal with international long-term private debt financing options that are less supportive of infrastructure finance.
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Chollywood: Chinese Film Industry Set to Expand Rapidly
The French Lumière Brothers are credited with enabling the birth of modern cinema but since the 1920s this is indisputably an American art form, primarily the domain of Hollywood which soon became the dominant force in an emerging industry. Since
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The IT Scene in China: Alibaba’s New ‘Open Sesame’ Financing
Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce company. It is a privately owned Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e-commerce businesses which, amazingly enough, began in 1999 with only a website. Today, Alibaba is one of the twenty most-visited websites globally, featuring nearly a
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Commodity Super Cycle to Stick Around a Bit Longer
Some analysts have predicted that the commodity price boom has played itself out. However, natural resource-based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure on US natural gas prices) have remained relatively high over the last
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World Bank Policies Include Screening for Climate Risks
The World Bank Group has made a priority of helping countries adapt to and mitigate the risks of climate change, and it is increasingly viewing its lending through a climate lens. Over the past few years, it has started implementing
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World Bank Group: “Customer is King” – Toward More Effective Development?
“Customer is King” is an old business saying that accentuates the importance of customers in every business. The private sector generally knows that satisfied customers are cheaper to serve and easier to deal with while unhappy customers will result in
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