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  • Peru: Sending Markets the Right Signals
    Every year in August, Peru commemorates the National Day of the Elderly. With the average life expectancy of pensioners projected to reach 89 years, the segment of the population over the age of 60 is...
    Date: February 14, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • World Bank Bonds for the Italian Retail Market
    These projects help countries transition to greener and more equitable growth that improves living standards and sustains environmental assets (water, land, air, ecosystems, etc.) and the positive benefits...
    Date: June 17, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Results-focused Impact Bonds Can Improve Development Outcomes by Involving the Private Sector
    Between $3.3 to $4.5 trillion in investments each year will be needed to fund the Sustainable Development Goals, according to UN estimates. As one way to meet these staggering needs, the international...
    Date: December 21, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • New World Bank Green Bond Is a Story of Market Growth and Innovation
    The arrival of the World Bank’s newest benchmark green bond, its largest in U.S. dollars to date, is a story of innovation and the growth of a market, one that is supporting climate-friendly development...
    Date: February 25, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Green Bonds Are Changing Investor Expectations & Making Sustainable Investing Easier
    A year ago in Davos, World Bank Group President Jim Kim encouraged investors at the World Economic Forum to take a closer look at green bonds, a relatively new but growing option for investing in a sustainable...
    Date: January 22, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Local Currency Bonds Catch On as Countries Aim to Catch Up
    Two years ago, the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation tried something that had never been done in the Dominican Republic. In a bid to increase access to finance to entrepreneurs and home-buyers,...
    Date: May 15, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English