How many fintech companies in Africa have reached scale? Scale is often deemed a yardstick of success by investors, policy makers and practitioners. So we should be able to answer this question, however, this is not as simple as it may seem.
Lucrezia Reichlin, Professor of Economics at LBS, will be joined by former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney to discuss the guiding principles of international sustainability standards based on enterprise value. Co-hosted with the European Corporate Governance Institute.
The pandemic has had drastic implications across the globe. Still, as industrial countries return to a sense of normalcy thanks to vaccinations, the reality for many emerging and developing economies is bleak. Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will join us to expand on these issues for the fourth event of our Rethinking Capitalism series.
The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development’s research collaboration with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) has officially kicked-off this week.
This project will combine theory with case study applications to illustrate how sustainable investment clusters (special economic zones, industrial parks, agro-processing zones, etc.) can have an outsized impact to catalyse low carbon and inclusive growth.