Capital Locast
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Capital Locast
The United Nations Capital Development Fund is a Centre of Excellence and Innovative Fund for Local Government Finance and Local Economic Development Finance. UNCDF and United Cities and Local Governments have joined in a coalition for a global financial ecosystem that works for cities and local gov...
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18 episodes
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 7
Before his election as Mayor of Porto Novo, In 2019, following the constitutional revision, he joined the party UNION PROGRESSISTE as a founding membe...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 6
Mauricio Vila Dosal is the governor-elect of Yucatan. He ran as the PAN-MC coalition candidate. He served as mayor of Mérida from 2015 to January 2018...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 5
Member of Parliament for Malaga (UCD), between 1977 and 1982, and Senator for Malaga (PP), between 2011 and 2014. Francisco de la Torre was President...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 4
Mr. José Maria Amado da Fonseca is Mayor of the District of Água Grande, whose capital São Tomé is also the national capital. He was State Secretary f...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 3
Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, Mayor of the City of Kumasi, is a prominent entrepreneur, a professional Administrator with more than 20 years of senior manag...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 2
Yvonne Aki Sawyer is a finance professional with over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, risk management and project management in the publ...
Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 1
In this Episode Mohammed Sifiani is speaking about the impact of COVID-19 on the City of Chefchaouen in Morrocco.
The pandemic strongly impacted...
Capital Locast - Episode 10
Emilia Saiz – Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments – World Secretariat. UCLG is the world’s leading local government body and its...
Capital Locast - Episode 9
Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi – Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments – Africa. The future is already here – the scale and speed of Afri...
Capital Locast - Episode 8
Brock Carlton – Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Brock believes that “Cities and towns build nations; they just n...
Why Local Government Finance is Essential to the COVID-19 Response
Local governments have been on the frontlines when it comes to the COVID-19 response, in large part because of their competencies--citizen engagement,...
Capital Locast - Episode 7
Honourable Lamin B. Dibba is the Minister of Environment, Climate change & Natural Resources for the Gambia since January 2017. The Minister oversees...
Capital Locast - Episode 6
Jesper Steffensen – Senior Partner of DEGE Consult and a leading expert on fiscal transfers from central to local governments and author of the Perfor...
Capital Locast - Episode 5
Francis Zinsou – Former Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations and former negotiator on behalf of the (then) 49 Least Developed Count...
Capital Locast - Episode 4
Rajivan Krishnaswamy – Former CEO of the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund in India and former Senior Urban Finance Specialist at the World Bank. Raj...
Capital Locast - Episode 3
John Tomaney – Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College of London, co-author of Local and Regio...
Capital Locast - Episode 2
Gillian Tett – US Managing Editor and member of Editorial Board at the Financial Times, author of Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Drea...
Capital Locast - Episode 1
Raghuram Rajan – former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and currently Professor of Fi...