While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...

Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles -- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector -- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...