AfCFTA What you need to know
ECA is pleased to launch this information booklet, titled AfCFTA: What You Need to Know, which asks sometimes highly technical questions about the AfCFTA and attempts to answer them in a language that is accurate but also non-technical and accessible at the same time. The overall objective of this information booklet is to help enhance awareness about the AfCFTA among the business community and the general public.
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.
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.
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.
Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks
This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and
the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth, Robyn Oates and Diana Rusu from UN Women. The authors would like to thank the experts who generously contributed their time and expertise to review the report, including Lizabeth Bronder, Marcelo Giugale, Anna Gollub, Esther Illouz, and Daniel Seymour.
Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries: Aggregate trends updated with 2019 Data
This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.
Transformative Climate Finance: A new approach for climate finance to achieve low-carbon resilient development in developing countries
This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.