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First ever Innovative Financing for Education Executive Education CAS at the Geneva Graduate Institute
The Geneva Graduate Institute and NORRAG launch a new Executive Education course in Innovative Financing for Education, in partnership with IIEP-UNESCO and with support from the Jacobs Foundation. The course will be delivered fully online from 3 March 2023 to 30 June...
Rural Finance in Zambia
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Nathan Sussman, Professor of Economics, and Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies on Sustainable Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute, explains how carbon tax can lower emissions while having virtually no adverse effects on business activity and...
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Lore Vandewalle est professeure associée au Département d’économie de l'Institut, où elle est titulaire de la chaire Pictet pour la finance et le développement. Elle est microéconomiste, spécialisée dans le développement et l’économie politique. Ses recherches portent...
Private Capital: Bridging the Gap in Global Health Financing
Amid the global chaos of 2020, a convergence of economic and social forces is occurring that presents new opportunities for financing of chronic public health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Widespread health system weaknesses made visible by...
Pandemic lessons. No. 1: The death of the “self-regulating market” myth
The myth of the self-regulating market is attributed to Adam Smith in 17761. England was the birthplace of a technological revolution that increased its productivity dramatically, reduced transport costs and created enormous financial and goods surpluses....
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