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
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
The State of Blended Finance 2020
Year: 2021
This report uses blended finance data and insights compiled by Convergence to provide an updated analysis of the blended finance market, including blended approaches, sectors, regions, and investor trends. It concludes with reflections on the journey to advancing blended finance at scale, exploring key challenges and progress made to date.
Author: Convergence Blending Global Finance
Publisher: Convergence Blending Global Finance
African Economic Outlook 2021
Year: 2021
The 2021 edition of the African Economic Outlook focuses on debt resolution, governance, and growth in Africa. Chapter 1 examines Africa’s growth performance and outlook amid the Covid–19 pandemic. It starts by emphasizing on policy options to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the short, medium, and long terms. It also explores the causes and consequences of Africa’s debt dynamics by showing how the changing structure and composition of debt create vulnerabilities.
Author: African Development Bank Group
Publisher: African Development Bank Group
Development baking and support to SMEs during the Covid-19 Crisis
Year: 2020
In as much as micro, small and medium enterprises account for 99.5% of the businesses in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and 60% of the formal jobs in the production sector, they should be extremely important to the governments and for the public policies that need implementing, particularly in the current context of the crisis unleashed by COVID-19 that threatens the very survival of a large number of the SMEs.
Author: Romy Calderon and Javier Carbajal, ALIDE
Role of Development Finance Institutions in Financial Inclusion – SME Observations
Year: 2017
Economic development and growth, and the participation of various economic stakeholders therein, requires the active existence and functioning of a vibrant financial sector. In many developing countries, a significant section of the population, excluded from participation in the financial sector. This product informs on: (i) the impact and imperative of financial exclusion; (ii) potential policy actions and measures; (iii) Links between DFis and financial inclusion, existing constraints between them and possible remedial actions; (iv) Roles of stakeholders and way forward.
Author: Dr. Herrick Mpuku