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.
4 products found
Scaling Private Sector Climate Finance in the MENA Region
Year: 2022
The global effort to fight climate change as well as the need to adapt and build resilience to the changing climate (climate adaptation) pose a set of challenges and opportunities for financial institutions in the MENA region. UNEPFI underwent a consultation process with member banks in the MENA region regarding climate finance in general and opportunities to provide support in scaling private sector finance for climate action in the region.
Author: Gigov, Anton
Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks
Year: 2021
This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth, Robyn Oates and Diana Rusu from UN Women. The authors would like to thank the experts who generously contributed their time and expertise to review the report, including Lizabeth Bronder, Marcelo Giugale, Anna Gollub, Esther Illouz, and Daniel Seymour.
Author: AFD and UNWOMEN
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)
Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020: Bank Regulation and Supervision a Decade after the Global Financial Crisis
Year: 2020
This report examines these new data and both new and existing evidence on bank regulation and supervision to inform policy makers. The Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 is the fifth of the World Bank series. It also tracks financial systems in more than 200 economies before and during the global financial crisis on an accompanying website (http://www.workdbank.org/en/publication/gfdr) and provides information on how banking systems are regulated and supervised around the world (http://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/BRSS)
Author: Frank Hollinger (FAO) and Adam Gross (FAO Consultant), coordinated by Makiko Toyoda (IFC).