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UNCTAD: COVID-19 Has Hurt Global Investment but the Recovery Offers the Chance to Build a More Sustainable Economy
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted investment and trade flows, but it arrives on top of existing challenges to the system of international production and trade. Flows of cross-border investment in physical productive assets stopped growing
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Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG): Reference Point in Creation of Green Economy
The Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG) was founded in 1962 and its main shareholder is the government of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. With a portfolio of more than 22,000 public and private clients, BDMG is present in
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Pandemic Gives Boost to Illicit Trade
A corrosive agent in many guises that threatens public health, depresses growth, undermines good governance, and degrades the environment, illicit trade permeates global society and stunts development. It now represents an estimated 3.3 percent of the world economy. Though that
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Heidelberg University (CSI) on Financial Innovation: Unleashing Full Potential of Impact Investing
Many relevant fields and geographic areas are blank spots on the impact investing landscape, because they appear too risky or offer too low returns. If impact investing is to contribute to the SDGS, this needs to change. Financial innovation could
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UNCDF and Convergence: Getting the Right Blend in Game-Changing Finance
In December of 2015, the global news website, Quartz, published a piece entitled “Both Venture Capitalists and Banks are Betting on Blockchain.” In the five or so years since this piece was posted, the debate over blockchain persists — whether
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Lord Waverley on Development Banks – By Name and By Nature: A Boon in Troubled Times
Development Finance Institutions (DFI), Development Finance Companies (DFC) or Development Banks (DB) are institutions that provide finance for development projects predominantly in weaker or developing economies. Development banks provide medium- to long-term risk capital and technical assistance to developing economies
Read MoreSustainable Development Goals
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Five years after the international community devised a blueprint for a fairer, safer and more equal planet, is the world any closer to achieving its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030? The question is being asked because, despite the
Read MoreRenewable Energy Consumption by Country (% of total final energy consumption)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Renewable energy consumption by country from 2010 to 2015 (% of total final energy consumption) Renewable energy consumption is the share of renewables in total final energy consumption.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Source: World Bank, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) database from the SE4ALL
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A Famine of ‘Biblical Proportion’
The worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. That is how World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley described the impact of the corona pandemic on vulnerable people in countries suffering war and drought. According to
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Spain NAB: Setting Agenda for Spanish Impact Investment Market
At an estimated €90m[1], Spanish impact investment is considered an incipient market by European standards[2], well behind Germany, France, Italy and even Portugal. This market counts 14 impact funds[3], and has been developing slowly over the past 10 years out
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