Search Results - subject_exact:"Development finance"

Growth and the demographic turn : development finance in an age of far-reaching population change

Mulgan, Geoff - 2026

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Financing green industrial transitions : a comparative analysis of implementation effectiveness in four emerging economies

Bartzokas, Anthony - 2026

Emerging economies confront unprecedented challenges mobilizing finance for green industrial transitions while maintaining development trajectories. This paper examines implementation effectiveness across India, South Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia-major economies representing diverse political...

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Financing green industrial transitions: A comparative analysis of implementation effectiveness in four emerging economies

Bartzokas, Anthony - 2026

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Linking KfW-financed aid projects and FDI : global evidence at the sub-national level

Wedemeyer, Laura; Kaplan, Lennart; Kluve, Jochen; … - 2026

This study analyzes the empirical link between German bilateral development finance and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) at the sub-national (ADM2) level. We construct a unique dataset by merging geo-referenced development aid projects - implemented by KfW Development Bank - over more than two...

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The catalytic effect of bended finance

Panizza, Ugo - 2026 - This version April 2026

Development finance institutions mobilize over $250 billion annually through blended finance operations, yet practitioners lack a unified framework to evaluate its catalytic effect and for choosing among instruments. I develop a model of investment multipliers under two canonical market...

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Financing green industrial transitions under firm-level constraints : a comparative study of Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa

Bartzokas, Anthony - 2026

Emerging economies face significant challenges in securing financial resources for green industrial transformation. This paper demonstrates that firm-level financial constraints systematically generate both emissions gaps and implementation gaps, constituting a first-order determinant of...

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De-risking investment for sustainable development : the role of development banks and emerging donors

Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Sharma, Prachi; Trentini, Claudia - 2026

Development finance institutions (DFIs) play a central role in financing infrastructure for sustainable development, yet their effects on project‑level risk allocation and private capital mobilization remain imperfectly understood. This paper examines how different DFIs and financial...

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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?

Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2026

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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?

Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2023

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Domestic revenue instead of development cooperation? : low- and middle-income countries facing the challenge of generating additional revenue

Haldenwang, Christian von - 2026

Exacerbated by the cuts in development cooperation (DC), many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are currently facing severe financial constraints. Against this backdrop, higher domestic revenue is a desirable goal for most countries. Greater attention is being devoted to enhancing...

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The case for a clean cooking green bank

Coldrey, Olivia; Lant, Paul; Ashworth, Peta - 2025

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The catalytic effect of blended finance

Panizza, Ugo - 2026

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Sustainability disclosure for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies : challenges and responses

2025

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Bending the climate change curve by blending finance : what is the real potential value-added of guarantees?

Claessens, Stijn; Kapoor, Sony - 2026

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015617995

Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African debt database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African Debt Database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African Debt Database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the african debt database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Banking the missing middle : risk, distance, and SME credit in the West African Monetary Union

Sory, Kouafilann Abdoulaye - 2026

This book examines why small and medium-sized enterprises in Francophone West Africa remain central to employment, trade, and private-sector growth yet continue to face constrained access to formal bank credit. Drawing on original evidence from Burkina Faso and interpreting it within the common...

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Rethinking development finance in Tajikistan : towards more sustainable and inclusive fiscal pathways

Ikromi, Jovid - 2025

This paper rethinks development finance in Tajikistan through the lens of fiscal sociology, arguing that sustained reliance on foreign aid and external borrowing may weaken state-society trust and erode institutional legitimacy. Anchored in the political economy of development finance, the paper...

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Rethinking development finance in Tajikistan: Towards more sustainable and inclusive fiscal pathways

Ikromi, Jovid - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African Debt Database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

This paper introduces the African Debt Database (ADD) - a new, comprehensive dataset that traces both domestic and external debt instruments at a granular level. The main innovation is a detailed mapping of Africa's domestic debt markets, drawing on rich, new data extracted from government...

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African debt database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the African Debt Database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Africa's domestic debt boom : evidence from the african debt database

Manger, Mark S.; Mihalyi, David; Panizza, Ugo; Rescia, … - 2025

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Unleashing sustainable growth : financing green productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Martínez, Ignacio; Valenciano, Andres; Velloso, Helvia; … - 2025

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Characteristics of India-Germany’s triangular cooperation approach in Africa

Kumar, Sushil - 2025

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Kalecki and the stucturalist view of economic development

Toporowski, Jan - 2025

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Chinese development finance and African policy space : towards productive incoherence?

Taggart, Jack; Cheng, Han; Power, Marcus - 2025

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The New Development Bank and the ecological transition : decoupling development finance from core currency hegemony?

Godinho, Enzo; Mattos, Beatriz - 2025

This paper investigates the role of the New Development Bank (NDB) in challenging global financial hierarchies while fostering an ecological transition. The NDB, established by BRICS, has a mechanism of providing development finance in local currency, which could reduce dependency on core...

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Does the World Bank Group efficiently promote private sector investment? : the case of energy transition

Zattler, Jürgen; Schmieg, Adrian - 2025

Both World Bank shareholders and the Bank’s management have emphasised the need for large-scale private investment to achieve development and climate goals. For the World Bank Group, this means collaborating more closely between its different institutions, an issue that World Bank President...

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Wedded to prosperity? : spousal favoritism in foreign aid and regional development

Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; … - 2025 - Original version: February 2024, this version: October 2025

This paper examines the influence of political leaders' spouses on resource allocation and regional development. We construct two new global datasets: one tracking leaders' and spouses' characteristics and one that geocodes aid projects, including new data from the United States and 18 European...

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Femtech in South-East Asia : unlocking innovation for women's health

2025

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Development finance at a crossroads : after Seville and beyond

Mavrotas, George - 2025

Development finance is facing mounting pressures amid global economic shocks, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and rising geopolitical tensions. These challenges have disrupted progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and exposed vulnerabilities in the current...

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Development finance at a crossroads: After Seville and beyond

Mavrotas, George - 2025

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Multilateral development banks and financing for development : the role of resource needs reviews

Bhandary, Rishikesh Ram; Gallagher, Kevin; … - 2025

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) play a key role in providing developing countries with affordable, long-term finance. In 2024, to help meet development challenges, the G20 agreed on a roadmap to make the MDBs bigger, better and more effective and recommended MDBs conduct resource needs...

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Climate finance and new multilateral development banks : approaching co-productive dynamics?

Zeng, Weishen - 2025

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What would it take to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa? : new estimates of the financing gap

2025

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What geopolitical returns does ODA bring?

Bau, Nicolas; Dietrich, Simone - 2025

We review the literature on the political economy of foreign aid, examining the geopolitical returns generated by Official Development Assistance (ODA). Our paper identifies conditions under which donors are able to influence political and economic outcomes in recipient countries, shape their...

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Exploring funding options for female entrepreneurs in rural areas in South Africa

Vorster, Sonia; Thaba, Sebonkile Cynthia - 2025

Women entrepreneurs in rural South Africa face structural and socio-cultural barriers in accessing funding. This study investigated how existing financial structures and support programs influence the sustainability and growth of female-owned businesses in rural areas. Using bibliometric...

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Greened dependency and development : the political economy of energy transition in latin america$dan introduction

Fritz, Barbara; Middelanis, Martin; Orihuela, José Carlos - 2025

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The quest for sustainable cities : rethinking practitioners in the (re)making of urban institutions

Barroso-Olmedo, Erandi - 2025

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Moving forward when there are no dollars : a guide to public investment in face of the balance-of-payments constraint

Oberholzer, Basil - 2025

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India's G20 presidency as a voice of global south

Kumar, Sushil - 2024

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Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion : emulating and learning from China

Yeo, Yukyung - 2025

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Climate finance in East Africa

Cherry-Virdee, Tallulah; Nyamai Warunge, Josephine; … - 2024

This working paper analyses the public international climate-related development finance reaching Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the three largest countries in the East Africa region, in the period 2015-2022 with a focus on the quantity of and trends in commitments of adaptation-related development...

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International fiscal cooperation and the financing of development

Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2025

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Getting special drawing rights right : opportunities for re-channelling SDRs to vulnerable countries

Zattler, Jürgen - 2024

Many developing countries are still grappling with the consequences of the pandemic and the associated high debt burdens while facing huge financing needs, inter alia related to climate change. In response, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights...

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Getting special drawing rights right: Opportunities for re-channelling SDRs to vulnerable countries

Zattler, Jürgen - 2024

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Commodity-based industrialisation in Africa : an opportunity in the transition to a global renewable energy system

Boumbouya, Raymond Kouadio; Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2025

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Global economic fracturing and shifting investment patterns : a diagnostic of 10 FDI trends and their development implications

2024

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Shifting to trade for profit : the Andean Development Corporation's strategy during the crisis of the 1980s

Brando, Carlos Andrés; Forero-Laverde, Germán - 2025

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Aid under pressure : 3 accelerating shifts in official development assistance

2024

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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Finance

2025

General introduction by George Kararach, Emmanuel Pinto Moreira and Victor Murinde -- Chapter 1 : Financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction: general theory and recent advances -- Chapter 2 . Globalizing Banking Standards and the Impact of Recent Global Regulatory Initiatives...

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Advancing the green transition of SMEs : insights for SME development agencies to support sustainability practices and reporting

2024

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Ecological Economics and Finance : An Introduction to Sustainable Monetary and Financial Systems

2025 - 2nd ed. 2025.

1. Exploring Sustainable Monetary Systems -- 2. Reality, the Economy, and Economics -- 3. Capitalism, Markets and Organizations -- 4. What Is Money? -- 5. Exploring Monetary Systems -- 6. Endogenous Money, Liquidity Preference and Interest Rates -- 7. The Macroeconomy and the Monetary Circuit --...

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Profit-generating entities or cash-management vehicles? : unpacking the financial performance of savings groups worldwide

Bossuyt, Emma; D'Espallier, Bert; Mersland, Roy - 2024

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New estimates of the cost of ending poverty and its global distribution

Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2024

This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the extreme poverty line which is insufficient for...

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Capitalizing on crises : the EBRD, Jordanian state and joint infrastructure fixes

Tawakkol, Lama - 2024

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The myth (or folly) of African debt

Vaggi, Gianni; Frigerio, Luca - 2024

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Linking KfW-financed aid projects and FDI: Global evidence at the sub-national level

Wedemeyer, Laura; Kaplan, Lennart; Kluve, Jochen; … - 2026

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015604840