This paper forms part of a series of publications under the Global Program on Sustainability (GPS). The series is a knowledge product of GPS Pillar 3 with the objective to promote the use of high-quality...
This paper forms part of a series of publications under the Global Program on Sustainability (GPS). The series is a knowledge product of GPS Pillar 3 with the objective to promote the use of high-quality...
This paper discusses both the relevance of economic and social rights (ESRs) for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing in the sovereign debt asset class and how to start incorporating these...
The increasing role of the financial sector in the move toward a more sustainable economic model continues apace. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) shock shone a light on the need for all society to correct course...
It is now clear that a narrow focus on the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient to achieve humanity’s aspirations for sustainable prosperity. Well-functioning ecosystems and educated...
At the 2019 Finance and Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM), policy makers called for improved transparency of the Pacific trust funds’ management practices and investment results as a way to foster its...
The global shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened the need to mobilize long term private capital to meet multi trillion-dollar infrastructure gaps, and to stimulate a sustainable economic...
With more than 40 trillion dollars of funds under sustainable management, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is no longer niche investing, including in emerging market (EM) sovereign...
Sovereign ESG performance sets a benchmark for subnational investment decisions and is increasingly a driver of capital allocations. How market performance or country factors are used to evaluate performance...
The evolution of sustainable finance to mainstream finance has been motivated by a growing demand for the financial sector to play a greater role in the transformation of the current economic model into...
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is quickly becoming ordre du jour in sovereign debt investing. There remains, however, lack of clarity around frameworks for scoring sovereign ESG...
If financial markets are to realign towards truly sustainable development the financial sector needs to differentiate commercial actors more accurately on their climate and environmental performance. A...
The world is on an unsustainable path. Financial sector participants are becoming more conscious of the impact of their economic, social and environmental footprint. As the investor community makes progress...
After Uganda enjoyed two decades of strong growth and poverty reduction in the 1990s and early 2000s, its economy slowed down, and social progress decelerated amid a steady increase of the population...
The note describes Namibia’s approach to support domestic economic development via mandating investment of a percentage of the large pool of local institutional capital in alternative financing vehicles...
This policy note aims to contribute to a national debate on the management of natural resource revenues. This policy note, part of a broader analytical program that seeks to inform macroeconomic and fiscal...