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/PRNewswire/ - Atlas ("Atlas" or the "Company") (NYSE: ATCO) announced today its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Financial Highlights: First...

Statistics are at the core of modern decision-making. They tell policymakers how many people are in the hospital, how the economy is doing, and by how much CO2 emissions are ascending. In the past year, their importance rose as official...

Stagnating private finance in developing countries The pandemic has exacerbated weaknesses also on the private sector side. External private finance tends to be highly volatile in EMDEs. Foreign direct investment has severely slowed down. Portfolio investments play an insignificant role in low-income countries, where capital markets are less developed. Even the controversial Chinese banks’ lending has retracted. The World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Database reports stagnating volumes of infrastructure projects with private participation in EMDEs at around $100 bi...

Thomas Hertel, Stephanie Rosch The Trump administration’s denial of climate change slowed down international progress at a critical juncture. But not all failure to act can be laid at the door of one country. The international community as a whole abandoned the commitment to cap the increase in the average global temperature to 1.5°C (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018). One critical reason is that while all of humanity will be affected by climate change, the initial impact is highly differentiated. Many see climate change as a future threat, not a present reality. Meanwhile, t...

Budget 2021 brings infra sector back in focus; bet on these 20 stocks to reap the gains In her Union Budget 2021 speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a National Bank for Financing Development (NaBFID) to help in the process of infrastructure financing in the country. February 04, 2021 / 10:32 AM IST The Union Budget 2021 seems to have brought the infrastructure back to investors' focus as the stocks from this space have been witnessing traction since February 1. On the Budget day on February 1, the S&P BSE India Infrastructure Index jumped almost 6 percent; on the follo...