Month: June 2015

IMF gets serious about infrastructure

The world’s underinvested in infrastructure and a new approach to building infrastructure should be developed. That is the message of an IMF report published on 18 June. The report, named Making Public Investment More Efficient, critically reviews global experience in…

The economics of Laudato Si

Pope Francis, head of the Catholic church, has once again courted controversy by intervening in the debate about pollution and global warming in an encyclical (a letter) dated 24 May and publicly released on 18 June. The text, which runs for more…