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The development community agrees on the need to address conflict and fragility for global security and sustainable … innovative and more flexible financing methods worth considering. Official Development Aid remains critical, but blended finance … lens presented in the OECD 2018 States of Fragility Framework. The data shows a positive relationship between blending …
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Forced displacement, including refugee flows, is a global phenomenon. As of 2018, 26 million people were refugees. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in order to meet those needs effectively and...
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provide further policy guidance in support of the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles, whose focus is unlocking commercial … the management, capital structure, investment strategy and portfolio allocation of the surveyed blended finance funds and … discussing the development strategy, performance tracking and evaluation approach. The 180 responses received illustrate to what …
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The authors assess the role of the multilateral development system and the reforms needed to support the new global agenda. There is an urgency to the reforms. The coming decades will see the largest urban expansion in history. More infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the...
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challenges that remain in the fragility, resilience and stability space. It is not intended as holistic policy guidance on “how …This study and its associated guidance contribute to advancing thinking and understanding about one of the most … summarises new and emerging instruments and approaches in financing stability and resilience, and points to some of the gaps and …
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Social impact investors seek social and environmental impact from their investments, in addition to financial returns. This chapter discusses the potential of social impact investment for developing countries, highlighting several examples to demonstrate how it works in practice. It examines the...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments - about Chinese development...
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conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas … to leverage the effect of environmental aid on the environment. Overall we find that aid disbursements are significantly …
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