Financing for Sustainable Development Report
Year: 2019
The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, the fourth report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance, four years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Prepared by more than 60 UN agencies, programmes and offices and other relevant international organizations, the report brings together a wide range of expertise and perspectives.
Author: United Nations (Inter-agency task force on Financing for Development)
Publisher: United Nations
Crop Receipts: A New Financial Instrument for Africa
Year: 2019
This report (i) provides background and purpose for the proposed African Crop Receipts Initiative; (ii) analyses the international experiences with crop receipts (CRs); (iii) discusses generic entry points for CRs in Africa; (iv) present specific opportunities for CRs in Zambia and Uganda; and (v) presents the study’s main findings and offers recommendations.
Author: Frank Hollinger (FAO) and Adam Gross (FAO Consultant), coordinated by Makiko Toyoda (IFC).
Financing Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role and Perspectives of Multilateral Development Banks
Year: 2019
The paper briefly describes the MDBs creation and financial model. Also, it analyzes the evolution of the mandates of MDBs across decades, as well as focuses on the description of the major MDBs in LAC. It further presents a perspective of MDBs' outstanding, commitments and disbursements to the region in the past 25 years. Based on these recent trends, the role and outlook of MDBs in financing development in the region are discussed.
Author: Raquel Artecona Marcelo Bisogno and Pablo Fleiss