Development Finance International
31 August - Zambia: FPC Results Now Online
27 August - Report on Multilateral Institution Performance
In March 2010, the UK Department for International Development asked DFI to survey developing countries' views of multilateral institutions' performance, to inform its decisions on where to allocate its funding for the next five years. The full report is now being published. It could also be read in conjunction with developing country views on the IMF and World Bank, assembled for the G20 in Freetown and London.
20 August - Report on the impact of the global financial crisis
Oxfam commissioned DFI to report on the impact of the global financial crisis on low-income countries' budgets, and their spending to reach the Millennium Development Goals. The report can be seen here, and for press coverage in the Guardian see here.
16 August - African Caucus Report on World Bank CPIA, Freetown
At the request of the Government of Sierra Leone, Development Finance International commissioned Nancy Alexander, Director of the Economic Governance Programme at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Washington, to analyse how to improve the World Bank resource allocation system to benefit African countries. The report resulted in the creation of an African Task Force on the CPIA. The declaration of the African Caucus meeting is available here.
27 July - Changes to the PCF pages
New information is available on the Private Capital Flows pages. The Trends pages have been reorganised, and link to downloads from recent synthesis analysis split into scale and composition, and sources and destinations. The Investment Climate page has been simplified, and recent synthesis analysis may also be downloaded. We expect to add findings from country reports to these pages as they become available.
