Knowledge Hub

The World Federation of Development Financing Institution’s Knowledge Hub (WFDFI_KH) is an online portal that clusters knowledge and resources on development financing across all development intervention areas. It is a free-for all web space where development financing practitioners and enthusiasts could access existing and compelling knowledge products from a wide range of institutions, with diverse structure and procedures, engaged in supporting and promoting development finance and its crosscutting issues in advancing policies, processes, programs, projects and practices for the benefits of their beneficiaries and stakeholders. The two-fold purposes of the WFDFI_KH are shaping and advancing policy and advocacy positions that impact the development of the banking and finance community worldwide and improve DFI capacity, as well as facilitating knowledge management and sharing.

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The Leaders of the Twin Transition in Asia: Mapping Capabilities through Digital and Green Patents

The Leaders of the Twin Transition in Asia: Mapping Capabilities through Digital and Green Patents

Biodiversity Protection Climate / Resilience Digitalization Infrastructures Investments Policy / Governance Publications Technologies & Innovations
The purpose of this paper is to (i) explore how technological relatedness conditions the progress in the digital and green transitions in Asian cities, (ii) identify the cities that are currently leading, as well as those that are most likely to take a prominent role in developing and implementing the Twin Transition technologies in the coming years, and (iii) determine which of these cities has the potential to leverage complementarities to develop green and digital technologies.
Clean oceans and the blue economy Overview 2023

Clean oceans and the blue economy Overview 2023

Biodiversity Protection Climate / Resilience Infrastructures Investments Publications Sustainability
Keeping the ocean clean and healthy is crucial for sustainable development and poverty reduction. This is reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 14: Life Below Water). Financial markets and institutions can play a pivotal role in driving the ocean sustainability agenda. Since 2017, the UN Ocean Conference and the Our Ocean Conference have collected around 1 800 measurable and financial commitments, mobilising $108 billion.
How to Identify Affordable High-Impact Digital Solutions for Public Services?

How to Identify Affordable High-Impact Digital Solutions for Public Services?

Digitalization Health Policy / Governance Public Sector Publications Technologies & Innovations
Digital projects in education, healthcare, and administrative services displayed net present values and low implementation costs, but wide variation was found in net benefits across policy options A fully digital solution is not always the best option for balancing costs and benefits. Adequate integration of digital and human inputs is often necessary. Since digital applications feature low or negligible marginal cost, scale is critical in producing large social net benefits.
Navigating Uncertainty: Investment Dynamics and Beyond

Navigating Uncertainty: Investment Dynamics and Beyond

Economic Development / Stability Investments Policy / Governance Public Sector Publications Sustainability
Countries have been increasingly decentralizing and devolving powers to lower levels of government in the hope of improving services delivery. Yet proliferation of governments, particularly in a developing country setting, may create fiscal and policy uncertainty and increase the tax and compliance burden for private businesses, with potentially detrimental effects for investment. This hypothesis is tested in the context of Indonesia, which has increased the number of districts from 284 in 1989 to 511 by 2014.
Lasting scars: The long term effects of school closures on earnings

Lasting scars: The long term effects of school closures on earnings

Human Development Policy / Governance Publications Quality of Life
Almost all countries closed schools and universities during the Covid-19 pandemic, affecting more than 90 per cent of the world’s learners. A growing literature aims to estimate the effects of these school closures on learning outcomes, future earnings and GDP. We contribute to this literature by estimating the impact of school closures on earnings in the long term using a natural experiment.
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