The Potential Implications of Economic and Social Rights for Sovereign Debt Investing
This paper discusses both the relevance of economic and social rights (ESRs) for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing in the sovereign debt asset class and how to start incorporating these rights into the investment process in a practical way. Many in the investment industry recognize the potential role that investors can play in influencing a country’s decisions on environmental and social issues, including human rights. Investors are also increasingly acknowledging the potential to influence a sovereign’s actions on social issues, such as ESRs, given the state’s direct role in providing a pathway to social advancement for its citizens. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 explains the relevance of ESRs to the sovereign debt asset class. Section 3 introduces the income adjusted ESR dataset, and section 4 illustrates the insights that this dataset can provide for sovereign debt investors. Section 5 provides one practical example of how sovereign debt investors could use such a dataset in practice. Section 6 presents our conclusions.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank
2023-05-24
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| Subjects: | ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, ESG, INVESTMENT PROCESS, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOVEREIGN DEBT INVESTING, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099936405242333688/IDU017beb32903a3c047db0a98506a37e5f395f1 https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39841 |
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