How are private investors financing infrastructure—especially institutional investors, such as pension funds, which hold over $100 trillion? And can these investors help achieve public goods, such as no carbon economies? An introduction to global infrastructure projects

Meetings of G20 officials during the April 2018 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank set in motion revolutionary and lasting changes in the mission and organization of global financial governance.

This article reviews the priorities of Argentina’s G20 Presidency (see g20.org), in general, and the G20 Infrastructure Working Group, in particular.

At the G20 Summit in Hamburg, the Compact with Africa was announced. What is in store for African countries signing up to this new G20 initiative?

After overlapping meetings this October, are we now seeing an overlap between the goals of the IMF and World Bank and those of the G20?

To promote the standardization of contracts for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), the World Bank Group published its 2017 Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions. How does the Guidance allocate risks to protect the state’s capacity to serve the public interest? These are the key issues in a legal analysis realized by Foley Hoag.

To promote the standardization of contracts for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), the World Bank Group published its 2017 Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions. Foley Hoag LLP found that the Guidance fails to allocate risks fairly or protect the state’s capacity to serve the public interest.

With legal counsel, the Heinrich Boell Foundation prepared this submission to the World Bank Group's consultation on its draft Report on the 2016 Edition of its "Recommended PPP Contractual Provisions". It cautions that the draft "Contractual Provisions" put an inordinate level of risk on governments (with potential fiscal consequences); obstruct the state's "right to regulate" in the public interest (for instance, to protect the environment and human rights); prefer international (rather than domestic) settlement of disputes; and fail to adequately promote contract transparency. 

Author Nancy Alexander describes forces working against inclusive, sustainable globalization, including the recommended contracts for public-private partnership (PPPs) to deliver public services.

The economic empowerment and participation of women cannot be limited to promoting female entrepreneurship.

This article outlines what US hostility towards multilateralism might mean for the G20 Summit in Hamburg. Nancy Alexander points to three areas of concern: a possible shift of geopolitical alliances, disputes over a new course of global economy, and the future of sustainable development worldwide.