In March 2023, the Second Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA2) identified $411 billion worth of investments required for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The World Bank Group’s new report “Private Sector...
In March 2023, the Second Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA2) identified $411 billion worth of investments required for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The World Bank Group’s new report “Private Sector...
To avoid persistent negative effects on economies and workers, it is critical that viable firms survive, and that financial institutions continue to provide access to credit and working capital for businesses...
This short note was published as independent blogs between June and October 2020 as part of technical knowledge produced by the disaster risk finance community of practice.
This note provides a set of high-level recommendations that can guide national regulatory and supervisory responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and offers an overview of measures taken across...
This note consolidates and summarizes the theoretical and empirical research produced in the past 20 years on the causes, effects, and sequencing of capital markets development. Overall, the empirical...
Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the World Bank’s Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program (DRFIP) launched a partnership to support middle-income countries (MICs) strengthen...
Mexico’s challenges in infrastructure finance can be framed along similar lines as other Advanced Economies (AEs) and large Emerging Market Economies (EMEs). Mexico is particularly well placed to make...
Housing needs are high in Mexico despite quantitative progress in the last 10 years.Global data hide mismatches between housing demand and supply. First, urban growth relied for a long time on a pattern...
In support of the National Development Plan and in recognition of its commitment to the Maya Declaration process for financial inclusion the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP), Ministry of Finance (MH), Secretary...
The objective of this paper, besides offering insight in the regional and global development and stability issues, is to initiate a dialog with housing finance market stakeholders on the course of action...