Strategic investment funds have emerged as a way of addressing gaps in the infrastructure investment lifecycle. These funds are wholly…
The modern stock exchange is a hybrid institution: listing venue, market steward, investment and regulatory liaison, product and service creator,…
Worldwide, around 500 million people live in “fragile situations,” mostly caused by armed conflict. Climate change threatens to add another…
After a strong rising tide starting in the 1990s, financial globalisation seems to have reached a plateau since the global…
Having worked in the international financial institutions for much of my career, I’m a big believer in the power that…
The world economy – and emerging market and developing economies in particular – display a gap between their infrastructure needs…
Complementing – and driving – World Bank President Jim Kim’s vision to transform the multilateral financier into an “honest broker”…
The corporate reporting of sustainability data – call it ESG, or environmental, social, and governance data – has come a…
Since 1990, when his landmark Taj Mahal casino and hotel defaulted on interest payments to its bondholders, businesses owned by…
Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of…