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…
Complementing – and driving – World Bank President Jim Kim’s vision to transform the multilateral financier into an “honest broker”…
For more than a hundred years, electrical grids have been built with the assumption that electricity has to be generated,…
The corporate reporting of sustainability data – call it ESG, or environmental, social, and governance data – has come a…
Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of…
Given the rapidly changing state of our global economic and political picture, it can be daunting to integrate sustainability strategies…
Discussions around large current account imbalances among systemically relevant economies as a direct threat to the stability of the global…
Building and upgrading the infrastructure to underpin sustainable development in emerging markets and elsewhere requires additional investments estimated at around…
By Christian Grossmann and Thomas Kerr The historic Paris climate change agreement entered into force in record speed last November,…