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Beijing’s Belt and Road investment strategy meets resistance in the developing world it seeks to influence

The Margalla Dialogue 2022 edition was full of innovative approaches to desired policy prescriptions

As postcolonial ecofeminists have long cautioned, the international community needs to ensure that in championing the gender and climate change connections and putting women at the forefront of this,

African state’s British-born official says his birthplace should not be held responsible before the world first knew about global warming

Keeping finance at the centre of the COP27 climate negotiations, a list of $120 billion in projects that investors may support to assist poorer countries cut emissions and adapt to the effects of global warming was published by United Nations experts on Wednesday. Among the dozens of projects named is a $3 billion water transfer project between Lesotho and Botswana and a $10 million initiative to upgrade Mauritius' public water infrastructure.

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from October 16 to October 31 on various topics, including trade, COVID-19, education, and public spending.  

Cartel raises long-term demand forecasts on rising developing world demand

Utopian solutions for saving the planet are doomed to failure - and worse. We must wake up before it is too late

The current international finance system operates to the disadvantage of Caribbean and African nations and must be reformed, says Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados.

Finance ministers of the G20 and the world met in Washington, October 10-16, to discuss how to navigate multiple crises, including rising cost-of-living, broken global supply chains, climate shocks, a