Financial Sector

Making housing more affordable to more people is always good news. Rent-to-own model could become a game changer in Africa, Latin America and Asia, where the financial opportunities for investors…

What happens if Kazakh oil and fossil fuel extractive industries cannot refinance their debt in the greening offshore markets? And what could be the implications of that for the country’s just…

The key to bridge the gap between infrastructure and climate is optimizing scarce public spending in order to generate more private sector participation. There are a number of ways to do this that…

A study by the World Bank focused on non-partner domestic violence found evidence that the effects of cash transfers in curbing violence against women and children are overwhelmingly positive and…

Remittances are a critical economic stabilizer. The true size of remittances, including unrecorded flows through informal channels, is even larger. In sub-Saharan Africa, remittances are estimated…