In conversation with: the OECD’s Achim Hartig
Germany Trade & Invest's Achim Hartig has taken over as acting chair of the OECD’s Network of Investment Promotion Agencies. He chats with Courtney Fingar.
ESG
Opinion: Venture capital companies are blind to the benefits of diversity
Striving for gender and race diversity is always a good end unto itself, but in the venture capital industry homogeneity may actually be hurting returns.
A focused effort to save the ‘distracted generation’
Robert Wigley's new book examines the damage being done to Generation Z by Big Tech and sees the free markets advocate call for better regulation as a remedy.
One year on: How the world of foreign investment has adapted to Covid
It has been one year since the UK went into lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Investment Monitor rounds up its coverage of how the worlds of business and FDI have changed over the past 12 months.
In conversation with: World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab
Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, discusses his new book, the impact of Covid-19 on the global economic system, and the rising role of ESG.
The urgent case for stakeholder capitalism
WEF founder Klaus Schwab explains how Covid-19 has exacerbated the need to fix the problems inherent in the global economic system.
White Papers
Gender equality makes investments more profitable. Here’s how.
IPAs and corporates should join forces to put gender equality at the forefront of their investment strategies, as it makes sense financially as well as working towards reaching the targets of the fifth SDG.
How The Red Sea Project is pioneering regenerative tourism
Partner content: The Red Sea Project prides itself on being the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism venture, instigating a science-led approach to luxury resort development. John Pagano, CEO of The Red Sea Development Company, discusses how this approach influences the investment partner mix; and tourism’s potential to elevate people, as well as place.
Opinion: Doing Business isn’t the problem. Its link with the World Bank is
The purpose of an investment climate index isn’t compatible with the role of a development bank. Doing Business and the World Bank should be decoupled to maintain the credibility of both.
Partner content
Breaking up the boys’ club in agribusiness
From land ownership to a seat in the boardroom, women in agribusiness face obstacles all along the business chain, but things are changing, albeit slowly.
Opinion: The wheels of progress must turn faster on gender equality
On International Women's Day, Courtney Fingar looks at how FDI can help countries and companies to get closer to gender equality, hopefully quicker than the 257 years the WEF predicts closing this gap will take.
Opinion: Stop avoiding social infrastructure – doing good pays off
Diversification, profit, societal value and sustainable development are but a few of the very good reasons for investors to prioritise social infrastructure in a post-Covid world, writes Investment Monitor's Sofia Karadima.
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