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Better Bonds: De-Risking Communities Through Resilience Investments
Extreme weather is causing billions of dollars in losses to public facilities, driving up insura
nce costs for businesses and homeowners, and making it impossible to build back, let alone build back smarter.
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Retooling Disaster Preparedness and Response: New Directions and Opportunities for Resilient Recovery
As the frequency and costs of weather-driven disasters keep going up, the existing systems for r
esponse and recovery are being strained.
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Investor Leadership in Sustainable Infrastructure Investing and Climate Finance: On the Road to Brazil
COP 30, the UN global climate conference taking place later this year in Brazil, is an inflectio
n point that has the potential to unlock and mobilize trillions of dollars to finance climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives, especially among the mos
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Risky Business: Understanding Asia's Geopolitical and Societal Uncertainties
As investors show renewed interest in Asia, old concerns about political and economic risks are re
surfacing. Although large parts of the region are under dynamic new management, old animosities appear to threaten Asia's rise.
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Creating Stronger Partnerships for Global Food Security
The global population will reach 9 billion by 2050, an increase that will exacerbate shortfalls in
food production and distribution.
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Global Consumers: Riding the Wave of the World's Growing Middle Class
The world's middle class is expected to burgeon from less than 2 billion consumers today to nearly
5 billion by 2030, reflecting rapid growth in developing nations.
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The Catalyst for Change: What's Working in Philanthropy -- and What's Not?
While corporate philanthropy continues to decline, U.S. individuals gave an estimated $350 billion
to nonprofits in 2014, roughly 2 percent of GDP. But is all this generosity effective?
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Peak Oil and Green Energy: Both Fossils?
With oil prices in the tank, the consumer dollar goes further. Indeed, the implications of oil's s
lide extend to the entire world economy, and many of these impacts favor the United States.
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Boom or Bust: Opportunities and Risk in M&A
An improving U.S. economy, continued low interest rates and thousands of companies sitting on pile
s of cash provide an abundance of fuel for an upsurge in mergers and acquisitions.
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Prescription for Wellness: Extending Our Health Span
The last century has seen advances in life span leading to individual and societal achievements th
at would have been unimaginable to prior generations.
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Power Shifts in Global Energy
As 2015 began, the United States had become a premier global oil producer, bringing the ideal of e
nergy independence closer to reality.
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Macroeconomic Trends: Monetary and Fiscal Responses
Central bankers and other policy makers have never been in such uncharted waters. With a few excep
tions, economies around the world are experiencing deflation driven by cheap oil, anemic growth and plummeting commodity prices.
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