Solutions Lab
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Our work on geoeconomics and trade focuses on supporting dialogues between key actors and articulating what a rules-based, non-discriminatory, fair, open, inclusive, equitable, sustainable and transparent multilateral trading system looks like in practice.
A key area of focus is the financial challenges – and opportunities — associated with funding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We bring together insights from business, academia, NGOs and on-the ground efforts around the world to reimagine how global finance can be leveraged to fund the SDGs. We reject zero-sum thinking and promote win-win scenarios that generate sustainable, equitable economic growth.
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Financing the Global Commons to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Helge Sigurd Næss-Schmidt, Michael Thöne, Rémy Weber, Christian Kastrop, Margit Schratzenstaller-AltzingerIn 2015, the global community committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We cannot achieve these goals without identifying internal and external financing sources for…
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Beyond Pledges
Helge Sigurd Næss-SchmidtThe global community has defined ambitious goals for the attainment of economic, social and environmental objectives, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on Emerging Market and…
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How Can The G20 Contribute To Debt Sustainability In Low- And Middle- Income Countries?
José Siaba Serrate, Kathrin Berensmann, Richard H. Carey, Rémy Weber, Alan S. Alexandroff, Colin Bradford, Marcello Estevéo, C. Randall Henning, Susan Thornton, Maria Monica Wihardja, Yu YeFor the first time, and after many proposals have been mooted, a global debt governance system is emerging. After decades as an informal and ad hoc process under the aegis of the Paris Club, the governance…
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Climate and development action requires political will and financial support (external link)
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The Stablecoin Threat
Dennis Snower, Angus ArmstrongFar too little attention has been paid to the fact that stablecoins could erode governments’ control over money and debt, fundamentally reshaping how modern economies manage inflation, stabilize markets,…
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