The Land Bank played a crucial role in the growth and development of South African agriculture. It can do the same for upcoming black farmers, but its business and funding model must be changed.
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This week’s summit for a “New Global Financing Pact” will look to secure some much-needed climate cash for developing countries, while ensuring their debt remains manageable.
It’s a crucial time for the World Bank, with growing calls for reform and sky-high expectations of what one leader needs to do. A former World Bank official explains the challenges ahead.
China’s international lending projects have big potential impacts on oceans and coasts. By cooperating more closely with host countries, Beijing can make those projects more sustainable.
Without financial support that helps communities adapt to climate impacts, climate change is projected to push tens of millions more Africans into extreme poverty by 2030.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
There is concern over the growing influence of non-regional players in decision making at the regional bank.
Big new investors such as the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank are key players in a worldwide infrastructure, and that could be bad news for the environment.
Credit rating agencies have come in for a lot of flack. But the bottom line is that to attract investors with deep pockets countries can’t avoid having a credit rating. And a good one at that.
Since time immemorial, huge infrastructure projects have been financed with funds from the capital markets. Africa should not rely on development finance institutions.
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Professor of Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Instructor, Harvard Extension School, Harvard University
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Senior Academic Researcher in Global Development Policy, Boston University
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Économiste risque pays, Agence française de développement (AFD)
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Finance & Deputy Head of School, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change Risks, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Global Development Policy and Director, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
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Dean of the Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
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PhD candidate, Chalmers University of Technology
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Coordinatrice du projet de recherche sur la finance et le climat, Agence française de développement (AFD)
