By Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU Secretary-General Imagine walking for miles under a scorching desert sun just to get a mobile signal, a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of refugees in southeastern Ethiopia. Or accepting payments for your fledgling start-up using mobile money, a boon for financial inclusion in countries like Rwanda. Or streaming a
By Equities Editors Desk When Charles Dolan set out to build a stock exchange, it wasn’t just to create another marketplace for buying and selling equities. As president of the Green Impact Exchange (GIX), Dolan is leading an ambitious effort to reimagine what a stock exchange can be, placing environmental sustainability not on
By Tequia Burt, Editor in Chief, LinkedIn For Marketing Blog Your customer has problems they can’t solve, questions they can’t answer and goals they can’t reach without help. Filling those gaps is why your brand exists. Showing them you can? That’s marketing’s job. This week we’re highlighting one of the
by LSE Environmental degradation is a structural economic risk rather than a peripheral concern. Nicola Ranger, Carlo Pasqua and Christopher Adam explain why, as international financial institutions review the IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework, integrating nature must be a core priority. Integrating nature into fiscal policy is a critical priority
By Tim Mohin After narrowly making its way through the Senate and House, President Donald Trump signed his cornerstone tax cuts and spending bill, ‘The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’, on July 4th. The law claws back unobligated funding, expands new oil and gas leasing, changes or eliminates energy and
Key Impact Points: ICC Investigates Systematic War Crimes in Sudan The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found “reasonable grounds to believe” that both war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in Sudan, Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told the UN Security Council this week. Speaking on the conflict
