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New Study Adds Up the Benefits of Climate-Smart Development in Lives, Jobs, and GDP
With careful design, the same development projects that improve communities, save lives, and increase GDP can also fight climate change. A new study examines the multiple benefits for a series of policy scenarios addressing transportation and energy efficiency in buildings
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From Australia to the World – Rupert Murdoch: The Future of Newspapers in the Age of the Internet
Australia is simply not big enough for Rupert Murdoch, though the country did give him his first break into publishing and broadcasting: Two Adelaide city newspapers and a small town radio station in the outback. From these rather humble beginnings,
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Magatte Wade: An African Serial Entrepreneur with a Heart
She’s none too serious, loves joking around and utterly fails to get the point of forced sex. Meet Magatte Wade, a young outspoken entrepreneur from Senegal and one of the up-and-coming power women from an awakening continent. The Davos World
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Norton Rose Fulbright: EU Sets New Financial Laws for Non-EU Entities
Introduction The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is one of the cornerstones of EU financial services law setting out which investment services and activities should be licensed across the EU and the organisational and conduct standards that those providing
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Boris Johnson: Fast and Furious, Reasoned and Smart
He did inhale. London mayor Boris Johnson did, being – in his own words – no stranger to cannabis. He also argued, in one of many silly moments, that if gay marriage was ok, there should be no reason not
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Grant Thornton UAE: Bridging the Gap in Private M&A Transactions
The increased appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is prevalent at both a regional and global level. This trend presents plenty opportunity. However trials and tribulations may precede success when considering the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) current market
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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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Brian Cox: Science for the Masses
Amongst the remains of Kolmanskop, an old mining town in the Namib Desert, a scrawny metrosexual soliloquizes about the nature of the universe in a Lancastrian accent. After another minute of establishing shots, the presenter sits down on a dune
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World Bank Supports New Innovative Financing to Reach SMEs and Exporters in Turkey
The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a US$250 million equivalent loan for the Innovative Access To Finance Project for Turkey whose main development objective is to improve access to longer-term Islamic finance and to factoring for small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs)
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OECD: Achieving a Resilient Economic Recovery
The recovery from the Great Recession has been slow and arduous, and has at times threatened to derail altogether. However, the major advanced economies are finally gaining traction and momentum. Private-sector confidence is rebuilding. After years of weakness, investment and
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