Stories: International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda

Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance.

This post was co-authored with Jenna Blumenthal, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy program.

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5 Steps to Improve the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Safeguards

The World Bank’s annual spring meetings take place this week in Washington, D.C….

UPDATE 4/11/13: After this blog post was published, the OECD released updated figures for 2010 and 2011.

From 2001 to 2011, Brazil’s per capita GDP

The Doha negotiations that just concluded earlier this month have again drawn a

This piece was written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Edward Cameron, Yamide Dagnet, Florence Daviet, Aarjan Dixit, Heather McGray, and Clifford Polycarp.

A Closer Look at China’s Overseas Investment

When it comes to overseas development finance, China is definitely a country to watch.

This piece was co-authored with Smita Nakhooda of the Overseas Development Institute, with inputs from Noriko Shi