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Health and Healthcare
How innovative financing will help prepare for future pandemics
Using an innovative financing model — already deployed against COVID and malaria — the international community can build an equitable and resilient future.
Public Finance and Social Protection
New Scheme Aims To Halve Childcare Costs In Canada
Taxes
The Biscay Model: innovation in taxation could advance the SDGs. An expert explains
Taxation is a powerful tool to mobilize resources, redistribute wealth and promote sustainability. We outline how the Biscay Model is advancing the SDGs.
Infrastructure
Screens over shovels: Using digital technology to modernize public works
With ever increasing pressure on public infrastructure, researchers reveal that digitising public works could revolutionise our public infrastructure.
Public Finance and Social Protection
Explainer: What is a stock split?
A stock split increases a company's number of shares, without affecting its overall value. Companies do them to increase liquidity or to signal good news.
Sustainable Finance and Investment
Payment fintechs: What are the benefits of this innovative form of lending?
Electronic payment providers - payment fintechs - are entering the lending market, but still struggle to manage those that intentionally default loans.
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
How fiscal support is boosting our COVID-19 recovery
Countries worldwide launched wide-scale fiscal support measures to mitigate the output losses caused by lockdowns aimed at flattening the COVID-19 curve.
Education, Skills and Learning
Study suggests link between welfare payments and enhanced brain activity in babies
A new study suggests that alleviating poverty leads to improved brain activity in babies - and is associated with better learning outcomes in later life.
COVID-19
3 keys to a resilient post-pandemic recovery
Governments and the private sector must react now to create a resilient economy and unified agenda for sustainable, inclusive growth
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.
Ageing and Longevity
The 100-year life is here. How can we meet the challenges of longevity? An expert explains
Humans are projected to live longer and longer - how can we change our outlook on work, caretaking and education to adapt? Stanford's Martha Deevy explains.
Financial and Monetary Systems
IMF: How actions from the Federal Reserve could affect emerging and mature markets
COVID-19 relief packages and trade issues have put average gross government debt in emerging markets up by almost 10 percentage points since 2019.
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.
Public Finance and Social Protection
Country Financing Roadmap for the SDGs: Saint Lucia
The Saint Lucia CFR report is the result of multistakeholder discussions with experts, thought leaders and representatives from more than 50 institutions, including public-sector institut...
Financial and Monetary Systems
How can developing economies recover from the pandemic?
Evidence suggests that medium-term growth prospects are dimming, as inflation helps reduce debt for developing economies only in certain circumstances.
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