Aiding Development: Assistance Reform for the 21st Century

Brookings Institution / Kemal Dervis, Homi Kharas, Noam Unger http://tinyurl.com/49rlyy9 [From publication website] Global development assistance efforts are experiencing a critical moment of change. This moment is not a week or month but a several-year period in which political scales are tipping, rationales and underlying assumptions are being reexamined, and new systems and approaches are … Continue reading »

Carbon Capital: Financing the Low-Carbon Economy

Accenture, Barclays http://tinyurl.com/4to687q [Study Objectives] Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the global society today. Barclays and Accenture have partnered to produce this study to analyse the role of corporate and investment banks in accelerating the shift to a low carbon economy. In it, we seek to quantify the capital required to … Continue reading »