3 mins in development finance/ wk 01 (December 28- January 3)
My weekly reading list for those interested in development finance and Impact investing focused on developing countries.
4 min readJan 18, 2021
Development Finance
IFC and World Bank
- (-/12/20) A Garment Factory with a Difference — “IFC”
- (-/12/20) How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Advance Post-Secondary Learning in Emerging Markets — “IFC”
UN
- (29/12/20) COVID-19 threatening development gains in Cape Verde: a UN Resident Coordinator blog — “UN”
- (30/12/20) Millions of children in crisis hotspots ‘on the brink of famine’, warns UNICEF — “UN”
- (31/12/20) Guinea-Bissau: UN chief commits to continued support as peacebuilding office closes — “UN”
DFC
DEG
- (29/12/20) DEG: USD 50 million for more PET recycling — “KFW DEG”
- (-/12/20) COVID-19: Information for our customers and business partners — “DEG”
- (25/06/20) VIDEO: Impact investing — “DEG”
CDC
EIB
- (29/12/20) Egypt: The EU Bank supports urban transport — “EIB”
- (29/12/20) Bosnia and Herzegovina: EIB provides €340 million to advance works on northern part of Corridor Vc — “EIB”
- (31/12/20) Egypt: Team Europe — EIB and Banque Misr work together to support private businesses and speed up the recovery of SMEs from COVID-19
- (04/01/21) Netherlands: A first in special care: ’s Heeren Loo borrows from EIB — “EIB”
IMF
EBRD
FinnFund
AIIB
- (11/12/20) AIIB Joins MDBs to Launch the First Joint Report on Financing the Sustainable Development Goals — “AIIB”
- (17/12/20) AIIB Loans to Tourism-dependent Countries Mitigate Economic Disruption Caused by COVID-19 — “AIIB”
- (23/12/20) AIIB Approves First Sovereign Loan to Cambodia To Help Rural Recovery — ‘AIIB”
Misc Development Finance
- (-/12/20) Impact: Six areas to watch in 2021 — “Environmental Science”
- (15/12/20) The Power in Your Purse — “The Big Exchange”
- (28/12/20) VIDEO: Egypt’s Al Mashat on Development Financing, Covid, Climate — “Bloomberg”
- (29/12/20) India’s agriculture sector needs much more than these new laws to help farmers — “Financial Express”
- (29/12/20) Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia seen fully recovering in 2021 — “Neikkei Asia”
- (29/12/20) Here’s how companies factor in environmental, social and corporate governance concerns — “CNBC”
- (29/12/20) VIDEO: Lords of Water: Episode One | Business and Economy News — “Al Jazeera”
- (30/12/20) 6 Trends In Social Enterprise And Impact Investing In 2020 — “Forbes”
- (31/12/20) Shifting Conversations In Multifaceted Policymaking — “ESCAP”
- (31/12/20) How to navigate the world of sustainable investing ratings -”CNBC”
- (31/12/20) U.S. soft power agency CEO: China’s New Silk Road is ‘the WeWork of development finance’ — “Yahoo Finance”
- (-/01/21) 1/4 Examining the Financial System to Build Community Wealth — “CCL”
- (-/01/21) EVENT: Spring’s Investor Summit — Register Interest — “Spring”
- (-/01/21) Winners & Finalists | 2021 — “ESG Investing”
- (-/01/21) PAPER: Valorisation by innovation in the water sector in Africa — “Science Direct”
- (04/01/21) Africa Finance Corporation Secures US$250 Million Capital Loan From US Government’s International Development Finance Corporation — “Business Wire”
- (04/01/21) Passive investing presents a challenge for decarbonisation. Here are six projects we’re backing to help change things — “RI”
- (04/01/21) For the global development community, 7 predictions for 2021 — “DEVEX”
Misc Technology
- (26/12/20) LafargeHolcim Uses 3D Printing to Create Affordable Housing in Africa — “For Construction Pros”
- (28/12/20) Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond — “Vitalik Buterin”
- (28/12/20) Charting Asia’s Dominant FinTech Frontier — “Coindesk”
- (29/12/20) 2021 Startup Predictions: Trends, Sectors, And Tech That Will Emerge — “Forbes”
- (29/12/20) Youth hold the key to growth of information technology in Africa — “The Standard”
- (29/12/20) Indian economy could be most resilient in south, southwest Asia subregion, says UN report — “The Print”
- (31/12/20) Fintech can drive strong post-Covid-19 recovery in Asia- “Phnom Penh Post”
Subscription Only
- (12/12/20) Will the IPO bonanza last? — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) Why democracy failed in the Middle East — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) Covid-19 has posed new challenges to the world’s waste-pickers — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) Wheat absorbs phosphorus from desert dust — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) One Russian scientist hopes to slow the thawing of the Arctic — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) Extreme poverty is history in China, officials say — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) How to get infrastructure right — “The Economist”
- (-/01/21) Jobless Cambodians are catching rats to feed Vietnamese city dwellers — “The Economist”
- (28/12/20) How digital technology is transforming China’s economy — “East Asia Forum”
- (31/12/20) China’s digital yuan threatens sprawling Alibaba empire — “Nikkei Asia”
- (31/12/20) Singapore’s GIC wary of vaccine optimism amid market boom — “Nikkei Asia”
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