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The World Needs a Green Bank

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

By: Hafez Ghanem

In this policy brief I propose a new approach to climate financing: the creation of an International Green Bank, which would be a global public-private partnership. This approach would make it easier to raise the $500 billion requested by the Bridgetown Initiative, because in addition to sovereign contributions, the Green Bank’s financing will include contributions to capital by...
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Sailing On a Storming Sea: Policy Challenges For Developing Countries 2022-2025

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

By: Hinh T. Dinh

The current bleak outlook for the world economy, with a likely recession in major economies, high inflation, rising interest rates, and slow productivity growth, will adversely emerging market and developing countries (EMDE) over the next few years.
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Climate Diplomacy and the Global South

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

By: Hisham Aidi

One aim of COP27 was to persuade countries to make commitments to reduce emissions and earmark resources for technologies to be transferred from industrialized states to less developed states. This year’s gathering is the first where “funding arrangements” for “loss and damage” were included on the agenda, to the displeasure of the US and European Union...
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COP27: A Brief Account of Contemporary Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Policies, a View from the South

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

By: Afaf Zarkik

Following the consecutives shocks to the global economy caused by fossil fuels, the timing has never been better to melt the polarization around climate change politics and propose innovative solutions to surf the uncertainty and complexity of this intractable policy problem.
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Bridging Green Infrastructure and Finance

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By: Karim El Aynaoui and Otaviano Canuto

The G20 Infrastructure Investors Dialogue estimated the volume of global infrastructure investment needed by 2040 to be $81 trillion, $53 trillion of which is needed in non- advanced countries (OECD 2020). The Dialogue projected a gap – in other words, a shortfall in relation to the investments foreseen today – of around $15 trillion worldwide,...
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The Sovereignty of Developing Countries: The Challenge of Foreign Aid

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

By: Noamane Cherkaoui

Foreign aid has a well-established and significant role in international relations. The role of foreign aid in the repertoire of international development programs is extensively documented, with its goal being the promotion of human and economic development.
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Quantitative Tightening and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets

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By: Otaviano Canuto

In its May 15th meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) lifted its benchmark policy rate by 0.75% to 1.50%–1.75%, the biggest increase since 1994. In addition to hikes in basic interest rates, liquidity conditions in the US economy will also be affected by the shrinking of the Fed's balance...
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The Response of International and Regional Financial Institutions to COVID 19

Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

April 6, 2022 12:00 am

The COVID-19 crisis has brought the global economy to its knees, by its intensity, scale, and far-reaching impacts. his webinar aims to assess the impact of the international response to COVID 19.