Publications
Emerging Actors in Development Finance
The landscape of development finance is rapidly changing.
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Managing Environmental Impact
International Experience and Lessons in Risk Management for Overseas Investments
by Tao Hu, Yingzhen Zhao and Lihuan Zhou - August 2014China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has been increasing dramatically. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, global foreign direct investment (FDI) decreased by 40%, whereas China’s OFDI increased by 8% (UNCTAD, 2013).
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Monitoring Climate Finance in Developing Countries: Challenges and Next Steps
Reporting on a Series of Three Workshops
by Dennis Tirpak, Louise Helen Brown and Athena Ballesteros - March 2014This working paper reports on a series of three regional workshops in which participants from governments in Latin America, Africa and Asia reflected on the main technical, policy, and capacity challenges to monitoring climate finance, and exchanged experiences on efforts that are under way in th
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Environmental and Social Policies in Overseas Investments
Progress and Challenges in China
by Denise Leung, Yingzhen Zhao, Athena Ballesteros and Tao Hu - May 2013Like other countries that invest overseas, China—through the projects it finances and executes—can bring great benefit to the countries and communities in which it invests (“host countries”). However, investments can pose challenges and risks to host and investor countries.
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China's Overseas Investments in the Wind and Solar Industries
Trends and Drivers
by Clifford Polycarp, Yingzhen Zhao, Xiaomei Tan and Jianwen Bai - April 2013Shifting to a low-carbon economy will require current emitting countries and projected future emitters to rapidly scale up their investments in renewable energy. In recent years, major emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil have been catching up with leading developed
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Breaking Ground
Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects
by Kirk Herbertson, Athena Ballesteros, Isabel Munilla and Robert Goodland - February 2009Growing demand for energy and natural resources has led many low-income, resource-rich countries to open remote areas to industrial development.
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Development Without Conflict
The Business Case for Community Consent
by Jon Sohn - May 2007While much has been written on the legal, normative, and development arguments for ensuring that host communities have the opportunity to consent to a project, there has been relatively little attention paid to how obtaining the free, prior informed consent (FPIC) of host communities is in the pe
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Diverging Paths
What future for export credit agencies in development finance?
by Jon Sohn and Jim Harmon, Crescencia Maurer, and Tomas Carbonell - October 2005Export credit agencies (ECAs) are bilateral public institutions that facilitate financing for home country exporters and investors doing business overseas, particularly in developing countries and emerging market economies.