Strategies and Initiatives on Digital Financial Inclusion: Lessons from Experiences of APEC Economies
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital financial inclusion with increased digital financial services. Several studies found evidence that the availability of digital financial services is associated with higher GDP and lower income inequality. The task is to find the right balance between enabling financial innovation and addressing risks such as insufficient consumer protection, low levels of financial and digital literacy, unequal access to digital infrastructure, money laundering and cyber risks.
Scaling Private Sector Climate Finance in the MENA Region
The global effort to fight climate change as well as the need to adapt and build resilience to the changing climate (climate adaptation) pose a set of challenges and opportunities for financial institutions in the MENA region. UNEPFI underwent a consultation process with member banks in the MENA region regarding climate finance in general and opportunities to provide support in scaling private sector finance for climate action in the region.
BCIE: Informe de coyuntura económica enero 2023
El informe mensual de coyuntura económica de enero presenta un análisis ad hoc del desempeño macroeconómico del mundo en general y de Centroamérica en particular, con información disponible al 14 de febrero de 2023. Algunos países reportaron un crecimiento mayor al esperado en el último trimestre de 2022, y existe un mayor optimismo sobre las perspectivas futuras reflejado en una posibilidad menor de recesión económica mundial en 2023.
Emerging and Developing Countries: The Noose is Tightening
The double shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has generated an inflationary spike unprecedented in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock came to interrupt two decades of disinflation imported from China and other emerging and developing countries and more than a decade of ultra-accommodative monetary policies.
¿Cómo acelerar la innovación verde en América Latina y el Caribe y por dónde empezar?
El presente documento publicado por el BID vislumbra algunos lineamientos para el diseño de instrumentos de política para impulsar la innovación verde en la región. A pesar de su gran potencial en fomentar un nuevo modelo donde crecimiento económico y generación de empleo sean compatibles con la sostenibilidad del sistema natural, varios factores, tanto internos como externos a las empresas, han limitado su difusión en el tejido empresarial de la región.
Air Pollution and Climate Change From Co-Benefits to Coherent Policies
This report brings much-needed realism to the climate and air pollution debate. It analyzes international experience to identify effective pathways to coherent policy packages that harness synergies and manage inevitable tensions between climate mitigation and air-quality management. It helps decision makers to prioritize pollutants and emission sources and implement regulations that will encourage economic actors to implement technical and behavioral measures in a way that quickly saves people’s lives.
Digital inclusion in Caribbean digital transformation frameworks and initiatives
This study evaluates the extent to which digital inclusion is considered in Caribbean digital
transformation frameworks. Digital inclusion considers the ways in which digital divides are created as
the digital transformation of society progresses, and how societal inequalities affect and are affected
by digital technologies. As such, digital inclusion is a lens through which the effects of the digital
transformation can be assessed.
Trends in gender finance in ACP development finance institutions: overview and selected examples
This study provide a background and research methodology; lays out emerging trends related to gender responsive finance among national DFIs in the ACP region; provides an overview of features of gender strategies and policies of key DFIs. It shows examples of gender-responsive projects and products; and Section 6 highlights key gaps, challenges and support needed to promote gender responsive finance and WEE at the national and sub-regional DFI level.
Trade Trend Estimates Latin America and the Caribbean – 2023 Edition
This report provides estimates of Latin America and the Caribbean’s international trade flows for 2022. It was prepared by the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in partnership with its Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), under the overall supervision of Fabrizio Opertti, Sector Manager, Pablo García, Regional Integration Unit Chief, and Ana Basco, Director of INTAL.