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Viewpoint: How Making Smart Financial Decisions Can Have a Positive Impact on Climate Change
Skeptics question the effect of ESG investment on financial performance, but we emphasize that climate change and other ESG-related risks materialize only over the long term.
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- Environment, Investing
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Protecting Women Will Make You Money
Big investors are starting to use a new metric to assess financial risk: rates of gender-based violence.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Africa No Continent for Old Men
Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies.Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies. Much of this can be attributed to the perceived dysfunction of the public sector over the comparatively robust nongovernment sectors.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: How Easy Is It to Do Business in India, After All?
To achieve its ambition of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25 and doubling that in the next eight years, India certainly needs to claw its way further up the rankings.
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: 4 Key Questions to Help Investors Avoid Greenwashing
We believe investors should consider four key questions to cut through the sustainable investing confusion and avoid greenwashing.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, greenwashing, impact investing
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Viewpoint: The Energy Transformation Is Not Happening Fast Enough
Climate finance as promised at the 2015 Paris meeting could have helped to avoid the recent construction of many new coal-fired power plants in Asia and Africa, which will be adding to the legacy of our industrial era for decades to come. But alas, as economic nationalism and ethnic chauvinism have taken roots, the willingness for international cooperation has dwindled, and with it the willingness to cooperate.
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- Energy
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Widening Digital Divide Will Foster Inequality in Developing Economies, Says UNCTAD
Seven ‘super platforms’ - Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba - account for two thirds of the total market value of the top 70 platforms.
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- Technology
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The Group Overseeing Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Will Apply for a Payments License in Switzerland
The Libra Association, the organization in charge of overseeing Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, said Wednesday it will apply for a payments license in Switzerland.
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- Finance
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- Europe & Eurasia
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