Knowledge Hub
The World Federation of Development Financing Institution’s Knowledge Hub (WFDFI_KH) is an online portal that clusters knowledge and resources on development financing across all development intervention areas. It is a free-for all web space where development financing practitioners and enthusiasts could access existing and compelling knowledge products from a wide range of institutions, with diverse structure and procedures, engaged in supporting and promoting development finance and its crosscutting issues in advancing policies, processes, programs, projects and practices for the benefits of their beneficiaries and stakeholders. The two-fold purposes of the WFDFI_KH are shaping and advancing policy and advocacy positions that impact the development of the banking and finance community worldwide and improve DFI capacity, as well as facilitating knowledge management and sharing.
6 products found
Finance for an Equitable Recovery
Year: 2022
The Finance for An Equitable Recovery Report is a new World Development Report prepared by the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The report focuses on the interconnected economic risks that households, businesses, financial institutions, and governments around the world face as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Author: World Bank (2022)
Financing for Development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to the financing for development global policy agenda
Year: 2021
The effects of the pandemic and the policies implemented in response have increased the liquidity needs of the countries of the region to confront the emergency phase. Within the current context of the pandemic, financing for development agenda faces two interrelated challenges: short-run and medium and long-run challenges.
This report proposes a set of policy actions to address both challenges and then focuses on potential initiatives to build forward better.
Author: NU. CEPAL
National Development Financial Institutions: Trends, Crises Response Activities, and Lessons Learned
Year: 2021
Coronavirus should not have been such a surprise, because its unfolding has followed astonishingly closely the path of a “climate Minsky moment.” This publication focuses on the role that public banks across the globe have played in managing the economic crises of Covid-19 to date.
Author: Eva Gutierrez and Tatsiana Kliatskova
Publisher: World Bank Group
Good Practices and Innovations in Risk Management for Agri-SME Finance Under COVID-19
Year: 2021
This publication gives a close look at the existing range of agricultural risk management tools that can be deployed both to address the current Covid-19 crisis and to build resilience for the future. From the perspective of traditional banking institutions, investing in Agri-SMEs tends to be perceived as riskier than investing in larger businesses, in other sectors, or both.
Author: Stenio Andrade, Michael von During, Pranav Prashad, and Karima Cherif with key contributions by Betti na Prato, Emily Kitongo, and Michael Hamp
Publisher: FARM and Climate Policy Initiative/Alliance Secretariat
Public Banks and Covid-19: Combatting the Pandemic with Public Finance
Year: 2020
Coronavirus should not have been such a surprise, because its unfolding has followed astonishingly closely the path of a “climate Minsky moment.” This publication focuses on the role that public banks across the globe have played in managing the economic crises of Covid-19 to date.
Author: Diana Barrowclough, Thomas Marois And David A. Mcdonald, María José Romero, Milford Bateman, Diana Barrowclough, Oscar Reyes, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, David Howarth And Helen Kavvadia, Thomas Marois, Nadine Reis, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Alfredo Schclarek Curutchet, Marco Carreras And Stephany Griffith-Jones, Alberto De Oliveira, Godfrey Yeung, Daniela Vandone, Marco Frigerio, Carlotta Zatti And Dalya Bakry, Victoria Stadheim, Ali Riza Güngen, Ellen Brown, Diana Barrowclough, AADFI, ADFIAP, ALIDE, EAPB
Publisher: Eurodad (Brussels)
Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?
Year: 2020
The paper reviews the available literature on financing water and sanitation services, arguing that existing sources of investment – private water companies, private banks and official development finance – are simply not happening at the scale or pace required and are unlikely to do so in the near future.
Author: David A. McDonalds, Thomas Marois, Susan Spronk
Publisher: Water Alternatives