Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit
ADB has developed this tool kit and road map, which outlines the key steps, challenges, and relevant country experiences for all three elements of getting carbon prices right. Drawing on existing research and knowledge products, this policy brief will help policymakers in ADB DMCs appreciate the landscape and, more importantly, the interplay of carbon pricing instruments and fossil fuel subsidies, as well as understand how these policies synergize or conflict with each other and broader environmental goals.
How to Cope With Inflation and Remain Profitable
An ageing population, the energy transition, and faltering globalization will continue to put pressure on business costs in the coming years.
What can companies do to adapt to these potentially profit-threatening trends?
BDC surveyed 1,500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to understand how the rising cost of doing business is affecting them and what strategies they can adopt to address it.
Advisory boards: an untapped resource for businesses
BDC undertook the first-ever Canadian study on the use of advisory boards by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The study describes how advisory boards work in these businesses and quantitatively demonstrates that SMEs that use them have superior growth and better financial results.
Inter-American Development Bank Quarterly Business Review: First Quarter 2023
The 2023 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank’s performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and organizational indicators on a quarterly basis to allow management to monitor progress in achieving corporate results. This periodic monitoring supports evidence-based decision making and allows for timely identification of deviations from targets and enables effective implementation of measures to address them.
Access to Credit and the Expansion of Broadband Internet in Peru
We exploit the staggered expansion of the internet broadband network to firms and bank branches locations in Peru during the last decade to study non-financial firm performance and bank credit dynamics. Access to broadband unleashes firm growth, increases the chances of entry of firms and reduces the probability of exit in benefited locations.
Increasing market acceptance – ELTI position paper on the targeted recast of the EU Financial Regulation
Due to the absence of impact assessment the effect of the proposed changes on EU Financial Instruments and the benefit of a greater reliance on Implementing Partners was not estimated. In this context, the ELTI association would like to highlight proposals, as outlined further below, based on the practical experience of National Promotional Banks and Institutions (NPBIs) which are implementing partners (IPs) of EU funds, operating directly and/or with financial intermediaries.
The status of women in agrifood systems
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the status of women in agrifood systems. It analyses the multiple sources of inequality that constrain their participation, well-being and empowerment; describes policies and approaches that have supported gender equality and women’s empowerment; and details how women’s equal participation in agrifood systems can transform individual and global outcomes.
Honour loans: a comprehensive mechanism to foster development by supporting MSMEs – ICReport in the series on Innovative Finances
The honour loans mechanism is a multidimensional one combining financing free of interest or requirement for securities or guarantees, with support to entrepreneurs. It has several benefits for entrepreneurs. They are a complement to the local financial ecosystem and thus contribute to filling the finance gap. They can be integrated into national long-term public policies to support MSMEs and adapted to regional programmes.
Finance for an Equitable Recovery
The Finance for An Equitable Recovery Report is a new World Development Report prepared by the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The report focuses on the interconnected economic risks that households, businesses, financial institutions, and governments around the world face as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The Report presents new research findings on the interconnectedness of balance sheets and the potential spillover effects across sectors.
National Development Financial Institutions: Trends, Crises Response Activities, and Lessons Learned
