Important progress was nevertheless made at COP25 on how to most effectively use institutions like public development banks to fund the transition to a zero carbon economy by 2050
Economist specialising in financial crises, development finance and reform of the international financial system. Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Director at the Initiative of policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University as well as Emeritus Professorial Fellow, at the Institute of development Studies, Sussex University. She is the co-editor, with J.A.Ocampo of The Future of national Development Banks, recently published by Oxford University Press.
This text is based on thoughts presented by Stephany Griffith-Jones at the FEPS conference “Looking for a different Europe. Reflections and perspectives” on 21st March 2017 An important, though not the only, cause for the rise of extreme right-wing parties is very weak recovery from the Eurozone debt crisis; recent evolution is more encouraging, with all […]