NEW YORK / WAM The UAE and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) have launched a new Research Report and a UN Action Plan to advance women’s participation in post-conflict reconstruction, following a year-long series of high-level panel discussions on the subject. Key areas of the discussions were focussed on included post-conflict governance, economic recovery and environmental ...

Bloomberg State Grid Corp of China will pay 2.57 billion euros ($3 billion) for an electricity network company in Chile, its first overseas deal in almost a year and a move that resumes its expansion abroad. The Spanish natural gas and power company Naturgy Energy Group SA said it agreed to sell its 96% stake in Chilean electricity networks unit ...

Bloomberg Private equity firms that piled into oil-production assets in the past few years now find themselves stuck, and forced to contemplate novel ways to make an exit. Even with the recent vaccine-induced surge in oil prices, industry executives say initial public offerings — the traditional method for realising gains from private-equity consolidation and dealmaking — are unlikely. So one ...