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Davos 2022
Brazilians are adopting digital payments faster than anyone else — what lessons can we learn?
Digital payments are driving a profound change in Brazil's banking sector. Since COVID-19 started, millions of people have been given access to bank accounts for the first time. Here's how.
Financial and Monetary Systems
Debt is climbing again in low-income countries. What needs to change to reduce it?
Debt in low-income countries has been rising for years, despite lower debt ratios than in the mid-1990s. Now COVID and the Ukraine war could make it worse.
Health and Healthcare
How innovative financing will help prepare for future pandemics
Using an innovative financing model — already deployed against COVID and malaria — the international community can build an equitable and resilient future.
Trade and Investment
How to boost inclusive investment decision-making in global health
Disciplined procedures to evaluate options for healthcare investment can reduce bias and correct power imbalances.
Public Finance and Social Protection
Explainer: What is a stock split?
A stock split increases a company's number of shares, without affecting its overall value. Companies do them to increase liquidity or to signal good news.
Climate Change
What are nature-based solutions and how can we finance them?
Nature plays an important role in combating climate change, but efforts to preserve and restore our ecosystems need more global investment to succeed.
Davos Agenda 2022
How blended finance could help combat climate change
Blended finance is a model that helps to mitigate investment risks and attract more private-sector funding for projects that make a positive climate impact
Blockchain
How blockchain accelerates small business growth and development
Blockchain technologies are enabling SMEs to access new markets through payment solutions, positively impacting economic development in emerging economies.
Sustainable Finance and Investment
For green finance, climate policy is the new monetary policy
To meet the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement, private companies worldwide need to be convinced that going green makes sense. Here's how that can happen.
Financial and Monetary Systems
This is how the top cryptocurrencies performed in 2021
2021 saw the crypto markets boom, with different sectors flourishing and largely outperforming bitcoin. Solana, for example saw an 11,177.8% increase.
Public Finance and Social Protection
What's next for bitcoin and crypto? The trends to watch in 2022
Countries are still debating whether to ban, regulate or embrace energy-intensive digital currencies. Five crypto experts share their predictions for 2022.
Development Finance
How is digital currency revolutionizing Cambodia’s finance system?
Cambodia's digital currency, Bakong, enables users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app.
Financial and Monetary Systems
IMF experts explain the urgent need for comprehensive global laws around cryptocurrencies
Crypto assets are changing the international monetary and financial system, but there is an urgent need for cross-border collaboration to address potential challenges.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Explainer: What is a DAO - and how did one of them almost succeed in buying the US Constitution?
Decentralized autonomous organizations are part of digital investing, with attention spiking after one DAO group tried to buy a historic copy of the US Constitution.
Climate Change
Why local action is key in the fight against climate change
Experts from the World Bank explain why development finance should be linked to climate action to protect the world's poorest - and tackle climate change.