In conversation with: Cities & Collaboration’s Carolina Arriagada Peters
Carolina Arriagada Peters, managing director of consultancy Cities & Collaboration, discusses FDI aftercare, gender equality, sustainability and the UK's post-Brexit future.
SDGs
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.
Opinion: Move over economic development, it’s time for equitable development
While women workers have been hit disproportionately hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the move to working from home has the potential to empower the female workforce given the extra flexibility it offers.
Can FDI fix Nigeria’s broken healthcare infrastructure?
Nigeria's healthcare infrastructure is in desperate need of greater investment in order to ensure that not just the wealthy have access to adequate care.
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.
Agritech start-ups provide fertile land for African investors
In spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa's start-up agritech community enjoyed a stellar 2020, with project numbers and capital inflows on the rise.
White Papers
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: Now is not the time to be tempted by home comforts
A company with wide geographical diversification will tend to be more resilient to major events, so temptations to retrench in the current environment should be resisted, writes Investment Monitor's Sofia Karadima.
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.
Partner content
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.
SDG focus: Mind the energy gap
The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised just how important access to clean, reliable energy is on a global scale, which is the theme of the UN's seventh SDG – but what role can FDI play in closing the energy gap?
Opinion: Why the quest for no man’s land feeds food insecurity
Large-scale land acquisitions have long been a danger to food security and the environment, but FDI doesn’t have to be part of the problem, according to Investment Monitor's Marina Leiva.
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