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At the UN Global Compact, Kingo Must Sustain Gains

Newsmakers | United Nations When the United Nations Global Compact was launched 15 years ago at the New York Stock Exchange, Lise Kingo was entrenched on the corporate responsibility frontline in Europe.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Brazil and Beyond

Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, visited Global Finance on September 10, just as Standard & Poor’s cut Brazil’s public debt to junk level. We asked him about the outlook for that country and other emerging markets.

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2015

Global Finance’s annual evaluation of the work of the world’s central bankers found some stellar performances, and some dismal ones. The toughest challenge for many: propping up falling prices.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Companies Prefer Performance-Based Compensation

Executive Pay | Since the global financial crisis of 2008, corporate boards have been under pressure to tie executive pay to performance.

Banking

Continental Divide In Latin America

Regional Report | Latin America The large economies on the east coast of Latin America—Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina—are slumping badly. Things are far different out west.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cuba and the US: Back In Business?

Regional Report | As relations between Cuba and the United States get friendlier, the economic outlook of the island is also improving.

Banking

Diversifying Africa To Stay Afloat

African nations can no longer get by on mineral wealth and commodities alone—and they know it.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Turmoil: Tempest In A Teapot?

Capital Outflows | The meltdown in China’s stock market this summer and steep falls in many emerging markets currencies led some investors to wonder if another 1997 Asian crisis was brewing.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Guatemala Stability Amid Instability

Guatemala’s political turmoil, with parties deadlocked in Parliament, a runoff election looming and corruption scandals exploding, means the government will operate in a kind of suspended animation until 2016.

Banking

IMF/World Bank Issue 2015 | Table Of Contents

Table Of Contents

Banking

Introduction | 2015 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings

Developing countries have long sought a greater voice in running the IMF and World Bank. The rise of rival development banks gives them more options—and more leverage.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Irans Peace Dividend

“An economic windfall.” That’s how the World Bank’s chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa, Shantayanan Devarajan, characterized the boost to the Iranian economy from the lifting of sanctions in the wake of the nuclear deal struck with the permanent members of the UN Security Council.