Contradictory messaging.
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Investors who care about the environment are better off holding shares in and exercising their influence over fossil fuel companies.
Coronavirus losers.
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Investment in tech businesses is crumbling but the winners are eyeing up the losers.
A truck carries palm fruits on the road in Nagan Raya, Aceh Province.
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The Indonesian government is still struggling to patch “infrastructure gaps”, The COVID-19 pandemic will make it even harder.
The Kampala-Entebbe expressway.
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International financing for massive infrastructure projects can create new problems for African cities.
There has been a slide in the levels of foreign direct investment in Africa.
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African governments need to spend more effort on maximising the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth
It’s just dollars and cents.
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An economist who has studied new ways to improve measures of gross domestic product explains what GDP is and how it could better reflect an economy and the well-being of its inhabitants.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
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SoftBank is pouring another US$8 billion into WeWork, even though the office rental company is now valued at just US$8 billion.
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Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology.
WeWork wanted to be a lot more than a shared workspace.
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Adam Neumann both controlled and managed the co-working company he founded in 2011. A finance scholar explains why that can be a serious problem in venture capital-backed startups.
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Research shows how decision making by investors is affected by the one-hour clock change.
Flash in the pan?
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WeWork’s uncertain future reflects how investors have wised up to the hype around Silicon Valley start ups.
In Ethiopia, rainfall is highly correlated with income and poorer parent’s ability to invest.
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Contrary to the belief that resource strained parents invest in academically stronger children, studies show that Ethiopian parents tend to invest more in the child with lower academic capabilities.
Our cities need to adapt to cope with more extreme weather events and other impacts from climate change.
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A call to make our cities more resilient to climate change could drive one of the largest new infrastructure builds in history.
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Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Christian Bale plays quirky hedge fund Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015).
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Michael Burry was right about the bubble that caused the Global Financial Crisis. He’s wrong about the next bubble being passive investment.
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It has undoubtedly been a game-changer for entrepreneurial finance, but researchers are discovering new inequalities and risks for investors.
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The only possible solution to the crisis, socialisation, is the one that the current government will not consider.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon currently chairs the Business Roundtable.
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A group of America’s most powerful CEOs said companies should no longer merely focus on maximizing shareholder wealth. A business professor explains why it’s not a big deal.
Without consumer demand investments can be bad for firms and bad for the economy.
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Investments only makes sense if there are markets for the things those investments will produce. It isn’t clear that there are.
Even the pros don’t know what’s up.
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A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.