Development Finance International
8 November - E-Newsletter Nº 2 - Recent and Forthcoming Activities
In the last 4 months, DFI participated in 5 major advocacy events around the BWI Annual Meetings, wrote the independent International Development Cooperation Report for the UN, increased cooperation with CSOs and international organisations to hold donors accountable for aid, continued its path-breaking analysis of MDG-related spending by low-income countries... Read more.
4 November - UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures
A Joint UNCTAD and OECD report on G20 investment measures finds that G20 countries have honoured their commitment to resist protectionism, but calls upon them to remain vigilant in light of intensifying protectionist pressures.
28 October - Low-Income Countries, the G20 and Global Financial Regulation
DFI has been funded by Connect US to partner with the African Economic Research Consortium, Brookings Institution, New Rules for Global Finance and the University of Missouri/Kansas City to ensure that low-income and African countries' voices are heard in the G20, US administration and Financial Stability Board on how global financial regulation can best promote their development. The project will involve a combination of research, analysis and advocacy during 2010-11. The project was discussed preliminarily at a seminar at the BWI Annual Meetings on 9 October. More details here. For the video of the Financial Governance Panel click here.
28 October - UN International Development Cooperation Report
The UN has produced the first International Development Cooperation Report, an independently authored analysis of trends in aid quantity and quality, mutual accountability and transparency, South-South cooperation, policy coherence for development and the need to reform the global development cooperation architecture. The report, which was commissioned from DFI by UNDESA, was preliminarily launched at a side-event of the MDG Summit on September 21, of which the summary is now available online.
24 October - Infrastructure Deficit and FDI Opportunities in Africa (AfDB)
With an estimated annual financing requirement of US$93 billion until 2020, this Economic Brief identifies huge opportunities and benefits from investing in Africa's infrastructure. Policy priorities include the mobilisation of foreign private capital (noting the importance of especially South-South FDI with reference to China), and alternative domestic and regional private sources in the form of infrastructure bonds (e.g. Kenya), Sovereign Wealth Funds (e.g. Libya), and commodity-linked bonds.
