Finance

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to Visit Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Jordan

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, will visit Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Jordan from June 1-4, to focus on the…

10 years ago

Paul Krugman: A Plea for a Return to Basics in Finance

Author of no less than twenty books, over 200 scholarly essays in peer-reviewed academic journals and more than 750 articles…

10 years ago

Nicholas Brady: Soccer Finance and the Pragmatist Who Fixed a Debt Crisis

Back in the days when a top-scoring soccer player could be enticed for a few million, Brazilian attacker Romario set…

10 years ago

The World Bank: Local Currency Bonds Catch On as Countries Aim to Catch Up

Two years ago, the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation tried something that had never been done in the Dominican…

11 years ago

Restoring Public Confidence: Industrialising Delivery of Pension and Retirement Solutions

Over the past century, governments, as well as public and private sector pension and retirement providers, focused on expanding existing…

11 years ago

Jacques Delors: Despite Design Flaws Euro Success Assured

Hindsight may offer some comfort and solace from contemporary reality. It is thus that Jacques Delors – aka Mr Euro…

11 years ago

MIGA (World Bank) – A New Boon for Emerging-Market Financing: Achieving Investment-Grade Bonds with MIGA’s Credit Enhancement

Many investors, lenders, and government officials are familiar with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group.…

11 years ago

Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market: Foreign Investors Told “Not Just Yet”

The regulator of the Saudi Arabia stock market – by far the largest of the Gulf Region – isn’t making…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Macroeconomics and Stagnation – Keynesian-Schumpeterian Wars

Policy makers in the advanced economies at the core of the global financial crisis can make the claim that they…

11 years ago

Robert Shiller: Making Sense of the Irrationality of Markets

The question of what motivates a trader to buy or sell shares at any particular moment is probably as old…

11 years ago