2. Global Megatrends and Challenges
Fragility and violence
Shifts in the global economy
Climate and resources
Commodity cycles
Urbanization
Source:WorldBank ForwardLook, September2017
Demographic transitions
Renewed political debate about globalization
Technological disruptions
3. Growth: a broad based recovery
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
2015 2016 2017e 2018f 2019f 2020f
Percent
World Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDE)
Source: World Bank Global Economic Prospects, 2018
4. But investment growth has been weak
0
4
8
12
16 2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
World AEs EMDEs
2003-07 average 1998-2017 average
Percent
Investment growth
Investment growth in EMDEs has halved since 2010. Since capital accumulation makes a major contribution to
potential output growth both directly, and indirectly via TFP, the slowdown has negative implications for future growth
5. The world’s economic center of gravity,
1980–2016, in black, at three-year intervals
Reflections on the new global
economy: multipolarity
1980
1989
1998
2007
2016
2049
Source: Danny Quah, 2011
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2012
Evolution of the earth’s economic center of
gravity: 1 CE to 2025
6. Is globalization retrenching?
Global Gross Financial Flows,
1990-2016 (percent of world
GDP)
Trade and FDI depth through
2016
Source: Ghemawat, 2017
Source: Ghemawat, 2017
Source: Braga, 2017
8. The SDGs present a major
opportunity for transformation
Global development agendas serve as a guide for countries to determine their national development path
MDGs (2000-2015) SDGs (2016-2030)
Goals/Targets/Indicators 8/21/60 17/169/~230
Priority Areas Human Development Holistic: Economic, Social, Environmental
Scope Developing Countries Universal
10. Data gaps are significant
0
5
10
15
20
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
“Assessability” of SDG targets in Canada
Quantified SDG target Canadian national target Proxy target Not able to assess
11. The SDGs are interlinked and data is
critical to understand those relationships
Japan’s goals interlinked to SDG 1
15. Until there is a business model for data,
it will not be used efficiently
16. The shape of successful national data
systems in the future
Source: Data for Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Support for Data and Statistical Capacity, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank, 2018
Institutions
Based on
Organizations that
Have
Data that Are Users Who Are Data Uses
• Open data
laws
• Rights to
privacy
• Accountabilit
y to users
• Broad
outreach to
society
• Harmonized
data
conventions
• Budgetary
autonomy
• Trained staff
• Adequate
installations
• Connected
databases
• Early warning
systems
• International
partnerships
• Up to date
• Disaggregated
• Easy to manipulate
and visualize
• Accessible in
remote areas
• Georeferenced
• Contestable
• From integrated
data sets
• Connected
• Data literate
• Diverse (e.g.,
• academics, CSOs,
media, local and
central
governments)
• Planning
• Policy making
• Monitoring
• Targeting
• Research
• Advocacy
• Lobbying
• Citizen
empowerment
18. Financing sustainable development
Source: World Bank, 2018
When a project is presented, apply the “Cascade”. You should ask:
“Is there a sustainable private sector solution that limits public debt and contingent liabilities?” If
the answer is...
Promote such private sector solutions
• TheWorld Bank could play an important role in supporting the government to advance
appropriate private sector solutions. i.e. though analytical support, technical assistance for
relevant reforms and capacity building, project identification and preparation support, project
structuring, and support to the government in negotiations with the private sector
Ask whether its because of:
• Policy or regulatory gaps or weaknesses? If so, provideWBG support for policy and
regulatory reforms.
• Risks? If so, assess the risks and see whether WBG instruments can address them.
YES
NO
19. How can the private sector get involved?
$24.4 trillion
in low-yield
government
securities
More than
$10 trillion
invested in
negative
interest rate
bonds
$8 trillion
sitting in cash
How much is out there?
21. Exponential changes in IT
are disrupting industries &
creating new opportunities
Why Blockchain ?
Drones
Artificial
Intelligenc
e
Blockchain &
Distributed Ledger
Technologies
Big
Data &
Analyti
cs
Internet
of
Things
Platform
Revolutio
n
Applications :
• Finance (e.g.
remittances; P2P
Payments)
• Record Keeping
• Identity Management
• Smart Contracts
• Sharing Economy (P2P
market)
• Crowdfunding
• Governance
• Supply Chain Auditing
• Protection of
Intellectual Property
Cloud
Computing
Robotic
s
Quantum
Computing
Transparent
Decentralized
Immutable
Cost Effective
Robust
21
22. Digital solutions are transforming the delivery of
products and services
Problems confronted by traditional
methods
Digital solutions
Service
delivery
Health
Doctor/hospital-centric model is difficult/slow
to scale
Digital solutions are transforming access/affordability
and, together with AI, showing growing potential for
diagnosis & preventative care
SMEs
Small/informal enterprises lack access to
markets/credit
Accelerating access to markets/credit (Taobao serves
over 4.5 million SMEs in China)
Agribusiness
Isolated farmers work in a more inefficient
manner, with variability in yields
Helps farmers improve yield/connect with supply chains
(mKrishi increased farmer profitability by 45% in India)
Power
Rural populations are often left without
electricity due to limited grid coverage
Off-grid solutions linked to e-payments give access to
remote populations (50M users so far, out of 1.2B
lacking access)
Government
Tax
Informality and lack of enforcement lead to
significant tax avoidance and leakage
Digital payments allow govts to increase tax revenue
Government
payments
Corruption and overpayment (ie. Ghost
workers, duplicate social transfer recipients)
Digital ID and payments ensures direct transfer of
payments to confirmed recipients
24. However, digitization is still nascent in most emerging markets
4 billion people are currently not participating in the digital economy
25. And digital disruption will impact countries differently
and could exacerbate global inequality
26. Fast rising aspirations
and technology is
changing the nature of
work. Countries will
not be able to compete
unless they invest
much more, and more
effectively, in people.
27. The Human Capital Project
"This year, for the first time, we are including human
capital in our measurement of the wealth of nations.
Human capital is about 65% of the wealth in high-income
countries and only 40% in low income countries.We’re
helping low income countries overcome this – and there is
a sense of urgency – not only because we’re facing several
current human capital crises, but also because
accelerations in technology will require countries to
urgently invest in their people if they hope to compete in
the economy of the future. “
Jim Kim
President,World BankGroup
28. lends to governments of middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries
provides interest-free loans, or credits, and grants to governments of the poorest countries
provides loans, equity, and advisory services to stimulate private sector investments in developing countries
provides political risk insurance and credit enhancement to investors and lenders to facilitate FDI in emerging
economies
provides international facilities for conciliation and arbitration of investment disputes
1944
International Bank for
Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD)
1960
International
Development
Association (IDA)
1956
International
Finance
Corporation (IFC)
1988
Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency
(MIGA)
1966
International Center for the
Settlement of Investment
Disputes
(ICSID)
The World Bank Group
29. worldbankgroup.org/sdgs
Follow us on twitter @WBG2030
Mahmoud-Mohieldin on
@wbg2030
worldbank.org/sdgs
February 2018
Mahmoud Mohieldin
Senior Vice President
World Bank Group
Hinweis der Redaktion
Sources of investment weakness. Whereas investment weakness in advanced economies mainly reflected sluggish demand and output growth, in EMDEs a broader range of factors has been at play. In commodity importers, slowing FDI inflows and spillovers from soft activity in major advanced economies accounted for much of the slowdown in investment growth after 2011. In commodity exporters, a sharp deterioration in their terms of trade (particularly for energy exporters), slowing growth in China, and mounting private debt burdens accounted for much of the slowdown in investment growth. In several EMDEs, political and policy uncertainty was a key factor in investment contractions or slowdowns (Kose et al. 2017). Investment weakness may also reflect the declining price of capital goods or a growing role of poorly-measured intangible capital, such as design, research and developments, marketing and training (Corrado and Hulten 2010; Ollivaud, Guillemette, and Turner 2016).
Evolution of investment growth. Global investment growth halved between 2010 and 2016, with the investment weakness shifting from advanced economies to EMDEs over this period. Investment growth in advanced economies declined during the Euro Area crisis and, after a brief rebound, again after the oil price decline that disrupted energy sector investment in the United States. In EMDEs, investment growth slowed sharply following the global financial crisis, from double-digit rates in the immediate wake of the crisis to a post-crisis low of 3 percent in 2016. Despite signs of bottoming out in 2017, investment growth has been well below its precrisis average
Consequences of investment weakness. Cyclical factors, although transitory in themselves, can have long-lasting effects on potential output growth. More than half of EMDEs in the sample suffered at least one year of investment contraction during 2013-17. In some, investment contractions were triggered by the prolonged slump of commodity prices from their peak in early 2011. In others, it was accompanied by heightened domestic political or geopolitical tensions. Such episodes typically foreshadow weaker potential growth in the three years surrounding the trough of the investment contraction (Box 3.3).
Potential total factor productivity growth slowed, post-crisis, below its longer-term average and pre-crisis levels. The slowdown started well before the global financial crisis in advanced economies (AEs) and spread to EMDEs after the crisis. Weaker productivity growth has been attributed to slower investment growth, partly because of heightened uncertainty and crisis legacies, population aging, increased regulation, and maturing global value chains and information and communications technology.
Trade: exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
Capital: FDI flows (% of GFCF); Stock market investment (% international)
Information: telephone calls (% international, incl. Skype)
People: tourists (% international); university students (% international); migrants (% of population)
Key constraints that the WBG can help with (or key constraints we’ve prioritized):
Data gaps (use Canada as an example –to showcase how even a developed country has major data constraints to overcome)
Financing/engaging the private sector
Add budget analysis here
Less than half the SDG targets are considered “assessable” in Canada
The analysis produces a mix of 37 directly quantified targets and 41 proxy targets that could be assessable across all advanced economies = 78/169 = 46%
First, we identify which SDG targets to assess. We do this by identifying targets that are outcome-focused, conceptually relevant to Canada, and adequately quantified and measureable to be “assessable” through either the formal SDG framework or a reasonable proxy measure. Second, we identify data sources for the assessable targets, starting with the U.N. SDG statistical database as the default and supplementing with other sources where needed. Third, we classify each indicator’s trajectory relative to the SDG objective.
At the time of analysis, the U.N. database contained information for 57 of the 78 assessable targets. Of those, only 20 targets had enough observations to conduct a recent status assessment for Canada
20/169 = 11%
Insightful and unexploited data exists, but is not accessible. It seems obvious but we need to make data a bigger priority. We make a lot of assumptions about what our problems are or what interventions work to address them. The capacity to process big data, decentralize the collection of data to the most remote parts of the world, use geospatial data will significantly improve our ability to make informed decisions. But more fundamentally, countries also need to put in place robust identification and statistical systems and conduct periodic household budget surveys in order to have an understanding of the facts at hand.
With rapid technological advancement and an increasing role for the private sector, governments are not the only actors responsible for development data.
Role of the WBG:
Three areas of work:
Strengthening partnerships
Producing data and cross-country indicators
Fostering client country data production, dissemination, and use
Some specific examples of WBG support to countries include:
Technical assistance on household survey programs
Civil registration and Vital Statistics systems
Earth observation data and geospatial mapping
Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative
World Development Indicators and SDG Atlas
The World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative plays an essential role in helping countries move forward to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and leave no one behind.
"Identification provides a foundation for other rights and gives a voice to the voiceless."
- Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa
Without official identification, a person can struggle to access:
Financial services, such as opening a bank account or obtaining capital and credit
Social benefits, including food vouchers, pensions, or cash transfers
Healthcare, such as health insurance, vaccinations, and maternal care
Education, such as enrolling children in school or applying for scholarships
Political and legal rights, such as voting, filing petitions in courts, owning property, or receiving an inheritance
Gender equality, including prevention of early and child marriage
Migration, including seeking asylum and crossing borders legally and safely
Collectively, the barriers individuals face in turn create larger barriers for the countries they live in.
Without strong identification systems, countries can struggle to:
Deliver vital services to people
Govern effectively
Eliminate duplicative or inefficient programs
Make efficient use of limited resources
Produce statistics accurately
ID4D helps countries analyze problems, design solutions, and implement new systems to increase the number of people with official identification and the development impact of the overall identification system. When more people have formal identification and identification systems function well, individuals access necessary services, governments function better, use resources more efficiently, and improve statistics to better inform their future policies.
The “open data movement” is already modifying the approach to data and initiatives, such as the Open Government Partnership creating incentives for civil society, private sector entities and governments to nurture the data revolution. Together with donors, such actors are currently building innovative partnerships to foster the use of private sector data. Examples include the World Bank working with the European Space Agency, which decided to open up access to its satellite imagery to help with the evaluation of a project at the bank. And in France, AFD is currently developing a partnership with Orange, MIT media Lab and Data-Pop Alliance to foster the use of private sector data for policy making.
Uber, the world’s largest taxi company
Owns no vehicles
Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner
Creates no content
Ali Baba, the world’s most valuable retailer
Has no inventory
Air bnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider
Owns no property
Highlight the risks: Privacy and misaligned incentives between the private sector and the public good
EU data privacy: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.[1] When the GDPR takes effect, it will replace the data protection directive (officially Directive 95/46/EC)[2] of 1995. The regulation was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018 after a two-year transition period and, unlike a directive, it does not require national governments to pass any enabling legislation, and is thus directly binding and applicable.[3]
WEF video: until there’s a business model for data, we can’t use it efficiently
Based on the presentations made during the 2017 HLPF
Based on the presentations made during the 2017 HLPF
Infrastructure TP from IF and PPPs TPs
We estimated last year that there’s 23 trillion dollars of potential investments in the Paris commitments of just 21 emerging economies – including green buildings, sustainable transport, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
We need investments in the trillions, not billions. Current infrastructure investment tops out at around 3.5 trillion dollars annually, but the need is more like 6 trillion dollars a year. And all of this needs to be climate-smart, low-carbon, resilient infrastructure.
And this is where the private sector can help mobilize the financing needed: there’s more than 10 trillion dollars invested in negative interest rate bonds, 24.4 trillion dollars in low-yield government securities, and 8 trillion dollars sitting in cash, waiting for better investment opportunities.
Even if a portion of that capital could be invested in climate-smart technologies and infrastructure, it could have a significant impact on emissions and increased resilience. That kind of investment would reduce the impact of more frequent and intense weather events in the Caribbean SIDS like we’ve seen with Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and now Maria; it could also reduce impacts of drought in LDCs in the Sahel, and devastating flooding from Sierra Leone to India and Bangladesh.
If we are going to meet and exceed the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda, we need all sources of finance – commercial, development, concessional, and philanthropic – and we need them all working together.
This is why the World Bank Group and the UN have been developing a new platform for climate action called Invest4Climate that brings together policy makers, owners of capital, private sector investors, IFIs, commercial lenders and philanthropy funds.
Invest4Climate will facilitate collective work by these potential partners to develop working together on transformational investments such as the development of large-scale battery storage for electric vehicles, the acceleration of high efficiency low carbon air conditioning, and the scaling up of renewable energy in more places around the world.
The immediate next step is to identify a set of concrete, transformative investment opportunities in key developing countries to show how this might work – including at the city level. At the is leadership group’s last meeting of this leadership group in April, the countries in the room made it clear that they’re ready to make the low-carbon transition, but they need capital at scale to finance it. They welcome support from partners like you to help shape the environment to crowd in this capital.
The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to place their learning at the center. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: 1) education’s promise; 2) the need to shine a light on learning; 3) how to make schools work for learners; and 4) how to make systems work for learning.
The World Bank Group offers multiple channels and instruments to encourage the private sector to seek opportunities and engage in developing countries. These include:
Creating markets and matching opportunities
Building new markets for non-financial firms
Promoting investment opportunities for financial institutions
Supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises/promoting innovation and high-growth entrepreneurship:
SME Lines of Credit
Partial Credit Guarantee Schemes
Early-Stage Innovation Finance
IDA Private Sector Window
Advisory services on trade and investment policies, supply chains, and improved financial infrastructure,
A global network of business-incubation centers,
Investing with the IFC Asset Management Company:
Engaging with business leaders and philanthropies:
Building relationships to advance common goals
How to meet development objectives, in short
Avoid bad ideas
Implement the list of policies adopted by countries with sustained high growth
Adopt one or more of the global development paths:
SDGs
OECD Accession
World Bank twin goals
Data, finance, and implementation are the key
Data: strengthen capacity; support data revolution
Finance: maximize impact of each type of finance: public; private; domestic; international.
Ensure private sector participation.
Establish a SWF
Expand financial inclusion, in particular savings
Implementation:
Invest in people
Invest in inclusive growth
Invest in resilience
Development happens at the local level: ensure that