SDG

UNCTAD: A Policy Compact to Get Investment Flowing Again

James Zhan suggests world leaders make a joint effort to formulate effective investment policies to help build investment firepower to…

8 years ago

World Bank Group: Investing in Women is Vital to Ending Poverty, Boosting Needed Growth

Closing persistent gender gaps is vital to boosting sustainable growth and ending poverty by 2030, World Bank Group President Jim…

9 years ago

Quantitative Easing: Another Shot for the Caffeine Junkie

Early in March, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced its intention to flood the market with about €1.1 trillion in…

9 years ago

Ten Guiding Principles to Encourage Foreign Direct Investment

Worldwide, foreign direct investment (FDI) volumes are shortly expected to breach the $3tn mark – representing fully 4% of the…

10 years ago

UNCDF: A Roadmap for Financial Inclusion

Nephathli is a man from Lesotho, formerly a mineworker in South Africa. His family’s main source of income is the…

10 years ago

Change the Economy – Save the World

By Christoph Greil, PhD student of public international law at the University of Vienna. A call for a more social…

10 years ago

UNCDF: Enabling Transformation – Investing in the Local Needs of Women

In 1990, in the first Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistani economist Mahbub Ul Haq…

10 years ago

World Investment Forum: Seeking Ways to Unlock the Idle Trillions

As the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, business and government leaders from across…

10 years ago

Nigerian Stock Exchange: Corporate Governance to Reign Supreme

The buoyant Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), with well over two hundred listed securities representing a total market capitalisation in excess…

10 years ago

James Zhan, UNCTAD: Investing in Sustainable Development Goals

The SDGs, which are being formulated by the United Nations together with the widest possible range of stakeholders, are intended…

10 years ago