Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) gained visibility. Despite the regulation demands by host states, this new sovereign role in international markets can work as an important tool for developing countries. By cushioning imbalance periods and insulating from...

Financial actors from developing countries are playing with other OECD financial giants as equals through their Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). SWFs could become major actors of development finance if they chose to allocate 10 per cent of their portfolio to emerging and developing economies over...