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  In April 2019, the Nelson Mandela Foundation commissioned a series of papers on urban land reform. Their aim was to inform debate about and propose a feasible approach to urban land reform which could, in the near future, be implemented. In line with this, SERI authored two papers on urban land reform and urban land redistribution. SERI has recently published the revised versions of the summary reports of the papers submitted to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and will be published at a lat...

The hypocrisy of the OECD, pt. 3 “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.” – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Three weeks ago, in part one of this series, we observed that since 2000, The Bahamas government has enacted numerous pieces of legislation in Parliament that have eroded our offshore financial services sector. Those developments are the results of a prolonged and sustained assault by the Organization for Economic Cooperatio...

I’m writing this on my final day at WRI, after nearly nine very happy and productive years. Together, we’ve grown the impact and the size of WRI, we’ve internationalized our reach, and we’ve built a well-functioning global team of 1,500 professionals across more than a dozen international offices. Along the way we’ve helped reshape understanding of the relationship between the natural world and economic development, we’ve introduced important new technologies and tools, and we’ve ...

AXIS: Bank of Namibia governor Johannes !Gawaxab. NEW ROLE: Outgoing Standard Bank CEO Vetumbuavi Mungunda. TRADER: Businessman Martin Shipanga. PHOTOS: Nampa, Contributed. CHIEF: The CEO of the newly established Namibia Investment Promotion and Investment Board, Nangula Uaandja. OGONE TLHAGE WINDHOEK Several of the individuals who served on the High-Level Panel on the Namibian Economy (HLPNE) have been landed cushy government jobs since playing advisor to government. This has sparked questions...

Andrew Steer at the Courage to Lead event in 2017 in New York. Photo by Ayano Hisa. I’m writing this on my final day at WRI, after nearly nine very happy and productive years. Together, we’ve grown the impact and the size of WRI, we’ve internationalized our reach, and we’ve built a well-functioning global team of 1,500 professionals across more than a dozen international offices. Along the way we’ve helped reshape understanding of the relationship between the natural world and economi...

Shining a much-needed spotlight on the education needs of internally displaced children After a year of the COVID-19 education emergency, we must not forget that the pandemic has intensified the massive challenges millions of children affected by conflict and displacement already faced in accessing safe learning opportunities . Internally displaced children – who have been forced to flee from their home but remain within their country – face numerous barriers in accessing education. While ...

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 13 2021 (IPS) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged all governments to support a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 21%. The US is working with other G20 nations to get other countries to end the “thirty-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates”. Anis Chowdhury Corporate tax vital For Yellen, “governments [should] have stable tax systems that raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises, and that...

The ocean is also one of the most powerful tools we have to help head off the worst consequences of global climate change.

Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow and Project Director for the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel, will provide opening remarks. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, will then moderate a panel discussion on the federal reforms needed to strengthen confidence in vaccines, including Covid-19 vaccines, in the United States. This expert panel will feature Bruce Gellin, President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Margaret �...

The Connecting Business initiative submission to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, March 2021 Format This paper outlines recommendations from the Connecting Business initiative (CBi)1 Secretariat to the High-Level Panel on International Displacement with a focus on leveraging private sector contributions to addressing internal displacement (i.e. thematic workstream #5 on private sector engagement). To align with the focus of the High-Level Panel...