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Banking

Inventing narratives

Why a rational individual may knowingly follow an irrational market trend

Blended finance

Innovative funding models

Blended finance, with participation from the private sector, is becoming increasingly necessary for making investments in water infrastructure

Multilateral bank

Vast role for governments

World Bank wants governments to do more to build human capital, generate taxes and provide social protection

Donor action

Bismarck’s tools for nation-building

Social protection is a driver of healthy economic development

Our view

Why we need the SDGs

If market dynamics resulted in equal opportunities and broad-based prosperity, we would not need the SDGs

Ethnographic study of a Swiss bank’s financial analysts

Social anthropologist has studied a Swiss bank’s financial analysts

Informal employment

Fixing broken phones

Some IT graduates in Zambia find livelihoods by repairing mobile phones

Development finance

Climate finance and humanitarian aid

Forecasting and monitoring climate finance is very difficult

Organised crime

Paradigm change

To protect people from harm, the Global Commission argues that drugs should be regulated not prohibited

Social cohesion

Good progress with further room for improvement

How well India is doing in terms of fighting poverty depends on what yardstick is applied

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.