The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has evolved significantly over the past fifteen years. Demand for ICSID’s services has grown in concert with an increase in foreign...
There is a significant gap in financing sustainable development in emerging economies to meet the climate commitments under the Paris Agreement and to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Bangladesh needs faster and higher growth to attain its vision of becoming an upper middle-income country by 2031. Inadequate infrastructure is among the key binding constraints to higher growth. The World...
Trust funds are part of the World Bank’s push for increased climate action. They play an important role in the provision of concessional funding to scale up climate investments, help countries in their...
This report describes the ESG integration practices at GPF as a practical example of how a pension fund can integrate ESG considerations into its investment practices and processes. The report focuses...
The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) is a partnership between the Africa Union, African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World...
This paper investigates the characteristics of resource-backed lending across sub-Saharan Africa. To shed light on this type of lending, the paper presents new information on thirty resource-backed loans...
This note is developed to guide the World Bank Group (WBG) teams in their policy and investment dialogues with the clients on smart cities. It introduces the key features, building blocks and development...
Faith-based mutual funds have recently become a growing corner of the mutual fund industry. Morality and ethics are thought to exert an influence on investors’ decisions in this segment, although their...
This report corresponds to Output 4, training on public investment policies and developing and operationalizing the integrated investment coordination mechanism, part of the Reimbursable Advisory Services...
When a financial intermediary receives financing from lenders/investors, such lenders/investors may prescribe environmental and social requirements, typically resulting in requirements for the financial...
The development objective of the First Investment for Growth Development Policy Financing (DPF) for Cote d’Ivoire is: (1) strengthen competition in key enabling sectors and domestic revenue mobilization;...
The development objective of the West African Coastal Resilience Investment Project for Western Africa is to strengthen the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa. Some...
As cities plan for post-COVID recovery, many questions preoccupy mayors, policymakers, planners, and developers. This article examines COVID-19’s impact on cities, drawing on local governments’ developing...
This Investment Policy and Regulatory Review (IPRR) is organized as follows: section two provides an overview of the country’s investment policy framework, including the legal instruments regulating foreign...
This Investment Policy and Regulatory Review (IPRR) is organized as follows: section two provides an overview of the country’s investment policy framework, including the legal instruments regulating foreign...
Each year, globally, nearly 2 million pregnancies result in stillbirths. Almost half (42 percent) of all stillbirths occur during labor. Yet, stillbirth rates are generally not considered when assessing...
These opening remarks were made by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the State of the Global Economy Event Organized by Brookings Institution on July 13, 2022. The report discusses about the...