The bank could soon end its ban on nuclear energy work, with shareholders and borrowing countries expressing growing interest in the clean, stable source of power and bank leadership backing the idea.
The plan, which is a partnership with the African Development Bank, would halve the number of people living without electricity on the continent by 2030.
Addressing climate change by transitioning the world’s power grids, automobiles and industries to greener sources will cost trillions — and Janet Yellen and European authorities have no desire for massive new spending right now.
Energy, climate commitments, jobs, and the two big questions of the week.
The new director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Africa Program on why resource curse thinking is…
Originally published in the IMF Public Financial Management Blog, June 21, 2022. Soon after the reformist businessman Hakainde…
