Is ESG the engine of value, or its fingerprint?
Strong ESG lowers the cost of capital, yet it rarely removes the underlying risks and can even surface more bad news. So what are investors really pricing?
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Airtel Money's London listing: African value, offshore ownership
A $7bn IPO built on millions of everyday African transactions. African consumers created the value, so why do they hold so little of the equity?
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The SDG Financing Gap
The trillion-dollar shortfall standing between the world and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals — and where the capital could come from.
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Can coca-leaf relieve the reproductive squeeze?
Modern agriculture faces an agrarian crisis of rising costs, monopolisation, and soil degradation — could coca-leaf offer part of the answer?
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Teaching development through Geography
From imperialist origins to decolonised curricula — how school Geography remains the primary way students learn about global development.
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Confined geography - Confined development?
Landlocked Developing Countries face unique barriers to trade and growth — what has global policy done since the Almaty and Vienna Programmes of Action?
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Lets give SIDS some more attention
Small Island Developing States hold a unique set of vulnerabilities to climate, economic and social shocks. Three decades of programmes on — how far have we come?
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