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Bertrand Badré

Can Finance Save the World

  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The Millennium Development Goals were still focused on public action, public influence, and public methods. That would change at the UN conference in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002, but cooperation wasn’t yet thought of as truly multidimensional, spanning businesses, financial institutions, and civil society.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    achieve them we need to shift the financial paradigm and mobilize the different kinds of finance and actors that are required. This is what I have called “the billions to trillions” roadmap: the needs are in the trillions, but public aid is in the billions. How we bridge this gap is key
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Working together by its very nature will require a resetting of incentives and drivers of actions at every level, not just in how our financial institutions are regulated or through the reform of international organizations.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    finance, when controlled, can be the best servant to each of us, not just for an elite few but for everyone.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    have acquired a clear conviction that financial innovation can accomplish great things in the service of the common good, and that multilateral institutions have a key role to play, thanks to their credit, the quality of their human resources, and their mission.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    finance is not the enemy, for the simple reason that, in and of itself, it has no quality of being good or bad. It is only a blind mechanical force that, poorly used or unsupervised, could take a turn for the worse (as we saw with the subprime crisis), or, used well and properly maintained, can offer us something better: prosperity shared by all without harm to our planet (as seen with the development of the green bonds).
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The way we will be able to get all humanity working together is to share a clear vision of our future, to get a compass, and to have legitimate leadership to guide us and concrete means of cooperation.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Invest responsibly in a clear and credible way, not just by paying lip service or seeking out the most benign hurdles to step over.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    I believe that, despite territorial tensions, countries have to work together in a revamped manner.
  • gustavo chiodihar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Finance can save the world. It is a strong force that belongs to us and serves us. Finance is not the master and should not be allowed to be manipulated by the elites. Finance exists for the common good.
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