Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why private capital are not allocated at sufficient scale to target sectors – which...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Methodology -- Sources and definitions -- Country groups -- Regional groups -- Income groups -- Summary tables -- Regional and income group aggregate tables -- Country tables -- Albania -- Algeria -- Angola -- Argentina -- Armenia -- Azerbaijan --...

Global Development Finance 2012:External Debt of Developing Countries isa continuation of the World Bank's publicationsGlobal Development Finance, Volume II (1997through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables(1973 through 1996). As in previous years,GDF 2012 provides statistical tables...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Abbreviations -- Overview and Policy Messages: Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability -- Capital flows to developing countries continued to recover, but at a slower pace -- The world economy is slowing -- Growing global...

This paper uses multivariate dynamic panel analysis to examine the response of international financial flows to natural disasters. The models estimated for a large sample of developing countries point to differentiated responses of specific types of financial flows. The results show that...

Edited by Zubair Iqbal and Ravi Kanbur, this volume consists of papers presented at a joint IMF and World Bank conference on external financing for low-income countries. The primary focus was on the impact of external indebtedness on low-income countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, the HIPC...