Can Finance Save the World?

FOREWORD

Gordon Brown

Few have done more to expose the challenges globalization throws at us than Bertrand Badré. And few have come up with more positive proposals for how to manage globalization in the interests of those who need our help most than he has done—first in his capacity as Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank and then as the inspirational architect of the “From Billions to Trillions” proposals, which were agreed at the Addis Ababa Conference as a means of financing the Sustainable Development Goals. He now challenges us with his plan for managing international finance and as the author of this new book, which introduces us to new thinking about globalization, he suggests how it can be made to work for the poorest of the world. ...