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4th Industrial Revolution
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4th Industrial Revolution
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Davos Agenda 2022
How blended finance could help combat climate change
Blended finance is a model that helps to mitigate investment risks and attract more private-sector funding for projects that make a positive climate impact
Financial and Monetary Systems
This is how the top cryptocurrencies performed in 2021
2021 saw the crypto markets boom, with different sectors flourishing and largely outperforming bitcoin. Solana, for example saw an 11,177.8% increase.
Public Finance and Social Protection
What's next for bitcoin and crypto? The trends to watch in 2022
Countries are still debating whether to ban, regulate or embrace energy-intensive digital currencies. Five crypto experts share their predictions for 2022.
Blended Finance
How is digital currency revolutionizing Cambodia’s finance system?
Cambodia's digital currency, Bakong, enables users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app.
Financial and Monetary Systems
IMF experts explain the urgent need for comprehensive global laws around cryptocurrencies
Crypto assets are changing the international monetary and financial system, but there is an urgent need for cross-border collaboration to address potential challenges.
Development Finance
China’s digital yuan app has now been used by 139 million people
Residents in 9 major Chinese cities have access to an E-CNY wallet, such as Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, with the country acceleratuong toward a more digitized economy.
SDIS2021
How mobile banking is taking off in Côte d'Ivoire
In the West African country, 94% of its 1.5 million high school students pay their tuition via mobile money.
Digital Inclusion
Innovative debt financing could close the digital access gap. Here’s how
Digital inclusion bonds can have a pivotal impact on building a more prosperous and equitable world.
Long-Term Investing, Infrastructure and Development
How SDG bonds can accelerate a green recovery
Infrastructure in Southeast Asia is facing a huge financing gap. We outline how new SDG Accelerator Bonds can help de-risk investments in infrastructure.
Trade and Investment
G7 countries to back minimum global corporate tax and support economy
G7 finance ministers will vow to support their economies as they emerge from the pandemic and reach an 'ambitious' deal on a minimum global corporate tax, a draft communique reveals.
Development Finance
These are the countries where cryptocurrency use is most common
Research by Statista shows that Nigerians are most likely to use cryptocurrency, with 32% last year saying they owned or used it.
Public Finance and Social Protection
This chart shows how preferred methods of payment differ around the world
One of the biggest reasons for people preferring cash in developing countries is not having a bank account and thus no bank card.
The Davos Agenda 2021
Helping small businesses build financial resilience
COVID-19 is hitting small businesses in the world's poorest countries hard. Governments can help by using aid funding to attract private investment.
Climate Change
U.N. chief calls for more climate finance for poor nations as 2020 goal slips
In 2009, wealthy governments agreed to increase climate finance for vulnerable countries to $100 billion annually by 2020, however, this figure has yet to be met.
Financial and Monetary Systems
This chart shows how debt-to-GDP is rising around the world
Falling revenues combined with costly pandemic relief measures have increased global debt by $20 trillion since the third quarter of 2019.
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