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Unlocking forest bonds: a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2011This document is an outcome of a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests, specifically focusing on the development and introduction of forest bonds.DocumentPolicy update: nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets
Ecofys, 2012Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets are currently developing in parallel with increasing debate on how to link the two approaches. This paper explores the role carbon markets may play for NAMAs and the key issues around the compatibility of the two concepts.DocumentThe precarious state of public finance
Global Policy Forum, 2007As part of the ongoing debate over sustainable development financing, this paper identifies and examines the obstacles to effective mobilisation of domestic revenues in Southern countries.DocumentChina's export-import bank and Africa: new lending, new challenges
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006This brief presents basic facts about Export-Import Bank of China (China ExIm) and identifies potential implications for Africa and the West. The brief concludes that, to the extent that Chinese export credit promotes economic growth in Africa, recent trends should be welcomed.DocumentExamining private investment heterogeneity
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This paper investigates domestic private investment behaviour in a panel of 24 low-income and middle-income countries spanning a period of 1981-2000.DocumentHow multinational investors evade developed country laws to prevent bribery and corruption in the developing world (including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and what can be done about it
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006Despite preventative measures, many multinational corporations from the U.S.A. Europe and Japan manage to pay their way out of complying with ethical and environmental constraints and evade anti-corruption laws, using sophisticated payment mechanisms to buy the favour of government ministers and their families.
