The Congolese Brewery that’s Weathered DRC’s Storms
After an initial investment of $134 million, beer output at the plant in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Beni more than tripled to 600,000 hectolitres between 2013 and 2021. Brasimba, which has been controlled by France’s Castel Group since 1995, further expanded production in Beni last year with a second filling line. […]
Foreign Investment in Clean Energy for the Global South is a Must
Meeting our climate change goals will require massive investments in clean energy projects, in both advanced economies and across the Global South. But financing projects in the latter group of countries requires an increase in foreign capital in-flows that will be constrained by currency exchange rate risk. Creating an innovative exchange rate coverage facility can […]
2023 Global Risks Report
Tensions Peak between Urgent Cost of Living Crisis and Sustainable Climate Action Conflict and geo-economic tensions have triggered a series of deeply interconnected global risks, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023. These include energy and food supply crunches, which are likely to persist for the next two years, and strong increases in the […]
