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Country Financing Roadmap for the SDGs: Saint Lucia
The Saint Lucia CFR report is the result of multistakeholder discussions with experts, thought leaders and representatives from more than 50 institutions, including public-sector institut...
Financial and Monetary Systems
How can developing economies recover from the pandemic?
Evidence suggests that medium-term growth prospects are dimming, as inflation helps reduce debt for developing economies only in certain circumstances.
Global Economic Imbalances
This is how much house prices are outpacing rents across Europe
Since 2010, rents went up by 16% in the European Union, while house prices rose by 34%. This has made ownership unaffordable for many people across the bloc.
Development Finance
China’s digital yuan app has now been used by 139 million people
Residents in 9 major Chinese cities have access to an E-CNY wallet, such as Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, with the country acceleratuong toward a more digitized economy.
Tech for Good
This is what global tax reforms will mean for Asia's tech giants
A new set of global tax reforms will change where tech giants pay taxes, resulting in major ramifications for investments hubs across Asia like Singapore.
SDIS2021
4 things to know about financing sustainable development
How is the world financing Sustainable Development Goals like ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger'? Here, we give a short explainer.
United States
What is the US infrastructure bill? An expert explains
President Joe Biden has signed into law the $1 trillion Infrastructure bill, promising vital investment in areas from roads, broadband access, and drinking water.
Public Finance and Social Protection
What we know and what we don't know about universal basic income
Trials show how universal basic income performs in both stable and volatile settings but alternative and adjacent policy ideas need serious exploration.
Financial and Monetary Systems
What is decentralized finance? An expert explains
DeFi refers to financial services that operate entirely on blockchain networks, rather than through intermediaries like banks.
Infrastructure
This LA homeless housing complex is made from reused shipping containers
American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to create private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for homeless people.
Development Finance
ESG: How can we improve sustainable finance?
Sustainable finance is the practice of taking environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into account when making investment decisions.
Financial and Monetary Systems
130 countries back global minimum corporate tax of 15%
130 countries, representing 90% of global GDP, have backed plans to introduce a minimum global corporate tax rate, in talks hosted by the OECD.
Africa
How to attract private finance to Africa’s development
Africa’s economic gains of the last two decades are in jeopardy due to COVID-19. But privately funded projects could provide a lifeline to its development.
Taxes
Corporate tax isn’t working – how can we fix it, globally?
Corporate tax payments will be key to post-pandemic recovery, but receipts must be shared fairly. Can the G7’s global minimum tax rate achieve this feat?
Development Finance
Crowdfunding raises over $34 billion a year. Here are four things you may not know about it.
The term crowdfunding was coined in 2006 but having a large number of people contribute to a cause has occurred throughout human history.