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Regulators, Organizations Look To Fill ESG Standards Void
Regulation of sustainable investments hasn’t kept pace with investor appetite
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- Investing
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Analysis: Is This ESG’s Big Break?
The Covid-19 market crash gave ESG funds an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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- ESG, governance
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Beyond the ‘Public vs. Private’ Debate in Global Education: Helping the Schools That Serve the World’s Neediest Children Survive COVID-19
COVID-19 is preventing low-fee private schools from serving the estimated 258 million children who lack access to education. And according to Irene D. Pritzker at IDP Foundation, these “mom and pop” schools lack access to the resources that could help them survive the pandemic. She urges the development sector to support them – and in the process, to move past outdated debates about public versus private schools in emerging countries.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- COVID-19, governance
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COVID Disruption: ESG Investment Catches on Fast & Is Here To Stay
Though ESG investments have not become a dominant theme in Indian markets as compared to the markets in the US and Europe, investor pressure could result in the rollout of not only governance oriented but also environmentally focused and socially viable investment practices.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- ESG, governance, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Demise of ESG Investing Overstated
The Department of Labor’s recent notice of proposed rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in pension fund investments has received a lot of responses, both in the official Federal Register docket and in the news media and blogosphere.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, governance
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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Reins in Mobile Money Companies
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya has ordered mobile money companies to immediately stop registering multiple individual wallets which are being used as conduits for bypassing regulatory transaction limits by illicit money dealers in its latest mid-term monetary policy statement released today.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Covid-19 & Inequality Test Corporate Purpose
A new initiative designed to evaluate how well companies are living up to their statements of corporate purpose in a time of global crises seeks expert input from stakeholder communities.
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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Authors of New York’s P2P ‘Public Venmo’ Bill Hope for Greater Decentralization
Published on Oct. 17, 2019, the white paper sets out the Inclusive Value Ledger (IVL) plan, which aims to bolster the mechanisms of the state’s monetization, production, saving and spending with the help of new digital technologies.
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- Finance
- Region
- North America
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