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Contemporary Issues in Development Finance
Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and the external finance perspectives and emphasizes addressing the gaps in financial markets.
The chapters cover topical issues such as microfinance, private sector financing, aid, FDI, remittances, sovereign wealth, trade finance, and the sectoral financing of agricultural and infrastructural projects. Readers will acquire both breadth and depth of knowledge in critical and contemporary issues in development finance from a philosophical and yet pragmatic development impact approach. The text ensures this by carefully integrating the relevant theoretical underpinnings, empirical assessments, and practical policy issues into its analysis. The work is designed to be fully accessible to practitioners with only a limited theoretical economic background, allowing them to deeply engage with the book as useful reference material. Readers may find more advanced information and technical details provided in clear, concise boxes throughout the text. Finally, each chapter is fully supported by a set of review questions and by cases and examples from developing countries, particularly those in Africa.
This book is a valuable resource for both development finance researchers and students taking courses in development finance, development economics, international finance, financial development policy, and economic policy management. Practitioners will find the development impact, policy, and conceptual analysis dimensions insightful analysing and designing intervention strategies.
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Reforming Climate and Development Finance for Clean Cooking
A transition to clean fuels and technology for cooking is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of sustainable development. However, sufficient, appropriate, affordable finance to support the transition is lacking. Grounded in primary data collection via expert interviews, this study’s research objective was to critically assess development finance institutions’ (DFIs) delivery of climate and development finance to address cooking poverty. Interview findings underscore DFIs’ important role in the transition, including to create the ecosystem conditions conducive to sustained investment. However, as a group they are not demonstrating the risk appetite and financial solutions that clean cooking markets need. Nor are they operating with the agility and flexibility required for rapid scale-up. Consequently, DFIs are not optimally fulfilling their mandates to create additionality and mobilise private capital in these markets. Interviewees call for DFIs to reconsider their approach, and we rely on these findings to posit a theory of change for clean cooking finance.
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Developmental Mindset
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial liberalization was meant to spell the end of strategic industry policy and the state-directed \"policy lending\" it involved. Yet, largely unremarked by analysts, South Korea has since seen a striking revival of financial activism. Policy lending by state-owned development banks has returned the state to the core of the financial system. Korean development banks now account for one quarter of all loans and take the lead in providing low-cost finance to local manufacturing firms in strategic industries.
Elizabeth Thurbon argues that an ideational analysis can help explain this renewed financial activism. She demonstrates the presence of a \"developmental mindset\" on the part of political leaders and policy elites in Korea. This mindset involves shared ways of thinking about the purpose of finance and its relationship to the productive economy. The developmental mindset has a long history in Korea but is subject to the vicissitudes of political and economic circumstances. Thurbon traces the structural, institutional, political, and ideational factors that have strengthened and at times weakened the developmental consensus, culminating in the revival of financial activism in Korea. In doing so, Thurbon offers a novel defense of the developmental state idea and a new framework for investigating the emergence and evolution of developmental states. She also canvasses the implications of the Korean experience for wider debates concerning the future of financial activism in an era of financialization, energy insecurity, and climate change.
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Access for all : building inclusive financial systems
Unlock the transformative power of microfinance for global poverty reduction.This insightful title explores how to build inclusive financial systems that empower the poor and drive economic growth in developing countries.Drawing on a decade of CGAP experience, it offers a comprehensive framework for expanding access to financial services for all.
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Perverse Development-Examining German Development Finance Institutions’ Engagement in Private Healthcare Sector in India
This article examines the role of German Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), focusing on a case study of Indian private hospitals financed by German DFIs, particularly Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG). The study reveals opacity in DEG’s investments with a major reliance on financial intermediaries. Findings suggest that DEG-backed hospitals prioritize commercial goals, compromising clinical autonomy and patient rights. This is accompanied by the denial of care to state-insured patients during the pandemic, favoring ‘paying patients’ over patients covered by public schemes, complaints of medical negligence, and price inflation. DEG’s support to private hospitals seems to fuel the growing commercialization and corporatization of India’s healthcare system. This study identifies a lack of a health system approach, equity, universality, and accountability in DEG’s investments and underscores the need for bilateral reviews, discontinuation of commercial intermediaries and investments in unregulated private hospitals, to enhance the effectiveness of DFI investments.
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