On April 8, 2025, Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the IFC, visited IE University in Madrid. Accompanied by the IFC delegation, Diop engaged in an important conversation with Manuel Muñiz, Provost of IE University, discussing how IFC’s investment has a double bottom line, seeking financial returns to ensure the institution’s financial sustainability, while aiming to have a development and social impact in emerging markets.
Max Weber understood a nation as a status-economic organization united by a common historical memory and the fight for the prestige of power and culture against other nations. Ernest Renan viewed the nation as a form of morality, the possession of a common rich legacy, the consent to live together, and the will to continue to value the heritage which all hold in common.
“Should I stay or should I go?” is more than a mere lyric from The Clash’s song that has now gone viral on TikTok as teens continue romanticizing the pop culture of the 80s. However, it embodies the question haunting Ukrainians since 2014.
“We are no longer the world’s death capital, and we achieved it in record time.” declared Nayib Bukele during the 78th UN General Assembly. After the country experienced a spike in gang violence in March 2022, Bukele has since arrested more than 78,175 people under a state of emergency according to Gustavo Villatoro, El Salvador’s justice and public safety minister, which granted suspension of some fundamental rights.
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