The objective of the Chair in International Architecture of Development Finance (IADF) is to "reflect independently about what the global development finance system should become in light of the current international situation and the lessons learned from the experience of the past 60 years."...

A joint study by the WTO and IFC established that the low share of trade supported by trade finance (25%) in the four largest economies of West Africa (Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal) was a major constraint in further expanding and diversifying trade flows and trade integration.**...

Private financial flows to Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) today are lower than in 2015, when both the UN's Addis Ababa Agenda for Action and the Paris Agreement were adopted - committing the world to financing the SDGs and reducing carbon emissions. Were the expectations...