Posts in Global Public Investment
Launch of the Global Public Investment Expert Working Group

Global Public Investment is a new paradigm of International public finance for the 21st Century. It’s an idea - I think - whose time has come, and that a number of individuals have contributed to developing over recent years, myself included. In today’s post I announce the launching of a new Expert Working Group which will take the idea further…

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Why We Need Global Public Investment after COVID-19

It has been heartening this June to watch the latest Gavi (the Vaccine Alliance) pledging round raise US$8.8 billion, partly in response to Covid-19. It would be more heartening if we didn’t have to live on tenterhooks always, unsure if the goodwill to meet this or that international need will eventually be found. Or whether, as with the US’s denial of contributions to the World Health Organization, it might even be withdrawn. This is the idea behind Global Public Investment…

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