Knowledge Products

This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth,

The present Second New Structural Economics (NSE) Development Financing Research Report was authored by a team of researchers from the NSE Development Financing research program and the Agence française de développement (AFD). The team is led by twoprincipal investigators—Jiajun XU, Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and Régis

Banks prefer that DFIs take a different economic position in a transaction structure rather than simply co-invest under the same terms and conditions as the bank. Specifically, they indicated a preference for the DFIs to do more to help mitigate local currency risk, and to find a way to work with state-owned enterprises

The Covid-19 pandemic has generated shocks that have caused economic fluctuations globally, calling for an understanding of the behavior of macroeconomic variables. This study presents an early review of the macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Nigeria has been severely affected by the spread of Covid-19 and the associated sharp decline in oil

This knowledge product builds on the main conclusions from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (the Alliance)policy brief on Enhancing the Role of National Development Banks in Supporting Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure,commissioned by FELICITY and developed in partnership with the Alliance.

The 2021 Annual Workshop of the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) was held virtually on June 29, 2021, on the theme: “Achieving the African Continental Free Trade Area: what roles and opportunities for national DFIs?”. The webinar was organized in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB).