PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT BANKS – ARTS, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WHY? WHAT? AND HOW?
This 2025 study highlights how Public Development Banks (PDBs) can leverage arts and culture to drive sustainable development. It maps global initiatives supporting creative industries, heritage preservation, and cultural access. Emphasizing both economic and social impacts, the report calls for more institutionalized cultural support within PDBs, promoting financial innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and integration of culture into broader development strategies.
African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) Annual Performance Survey 2023
The African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) Annual Performance Survey provides information on the status of African DFIs’ operations. The biannual performance survey measures African DFIs’ performance based on set indicators. The 2023 report is the second edition, based on the 2022 figures. Cross-sectional data from primary sources was used for the survey.
Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024: Fiscal policy for addressing the challenges of climate change
This edition of the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean explores how a carbon tax can be used as an instrument to finance the major climate investments needed. It also analyses progress made in the quantification of public sector climate spending.
Africa In Figures 2023
The publication served as a comprehensive source of data on African economic and trade with a view to facilitating access by Afreximbank staff, while also serving the broader constituent of the Bank’s stakeholders, including African and global researchers and policymakers.
Contemporary Issues in African Trade and Trade Finance
The Contemporary Issues in African Trade and Trade Finance (CIAT) is introduced by the Bank to provide a platform for the staff of Afreximbank and other individuals knowledgeable in African trade and trade finance to publish articles in the areas of trade, trade finance and economic development in Africa.
Africa and the Developing World in a Turbulent Global Financial Architecture
The lecture was held at a time of heightened geoplitical tensions, which could have significant implications for global trading and financial systems with far-reaching impact for African and Caribbean countries and, more generally, for developing economies. It provided the opportunity to reflect on the contours of the global financial architecture that could emerge from the turbulent global economic environment to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
2023 Annual Workshop of the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI)
The 2023 Annual Workshop of the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) was held on the theme “The Role of African DFIs in Achieving Just Energy Transition” on May 22, 2023, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Centre (SSHCC), in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The workshop was organized with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and supported by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
Guia de Aplicação da Metodologia ODS e Sustentabilidade do Sistema Nacional de Fomento
O presente Guia de Aplicação da Metodologia ODS e Sustentabilidade
no Sistema Nacional de Fomento, parte do projeto “Metodologia
de Integração dos ODS para mensurar a Efetividade das Instituições Financeiras de Desenvolvimento Brasileiras” (Projeto ODS),
em parceria com a Agência Alemã de Cooperação Internacional
(GIZ) e o Banco de Desenvolvimento da América Latina (CAF), contribui
em pelo menos dois dos seis temas destacados pelo Plano
ABDE 2030 para o fortalecimento do SNF.
Do Behavioral Drivers Matter for Healthcare Decision-making in Times of Crisis?: A study of Low-Income Women in El Salvador During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study analyzes the relationship between four behavioral predictors the internal locus of control, impatience, optimism bias, and aspirations and healthcare decisions among low-income women in El Salvador. We find positive associations between internal locus of control and preventive health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic (use of masks, distance, hand washing, and COVID-19 vaccination) and in general (prenatal checkups, iron-rich diets for children and hypertension tests).
Stronger Social Protection and Labor Systems in Central America for a Resilient and Inclusive Recovery
This report presents an overview of the challenges of SPL systems before and in the aftermath of COVID-19, with the main objective to lay the base for directions for policy reforms. The next section presents an overview of the long-standing challenges of the SPL systems in the sub-re gion, how these challenges helped or constrained its capacity to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging challenges for SPL systems in the aftermath.