The future of global cooperation is circular

This lecture sets out Global Public Investment as the foundation of a new era of international public finance, one that breaks with top-down paradigms and embraces mutuality, universality and shared responsibility.

At a time of climate breakdown, economic instability, geopolitical tension and a crisis of multilateralism, it argues for a shift from charity to investment, from hierarchy to partnership, and from ad hoc support to structured and permanent cooperation, with all countries as co-contributors and co-beneficiaries.