This article was first published in FIMM’s digital magazine, FIMM e-Zine Issue 2/2021, which can be accessed here.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact across multiple dimensions – health, society, economy and markets. The pandemic and the ensuing global lockdown has led to serious concerns about the shape of the overall economy, which will reverberate into the future, including concerns on rising unemployment levels, viability of smaller businesses and longer-term societal aspects.

While the COVID-19 pandemic was seen to have a negative impact on the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and further impact on the financing of the SDGs, there has been evidence of increasing financing in the socioeconomic space.

In this piece, ICMR explores the current state of sustainable finance globally and in Malaysia, as well as the driving factors of sustainable finance post COVID-19.

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