Mapping 500+ Development Banks: Qualification Criteria, Stylized Facts, and Development Trends

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 two
principal investigators—Jiajun XU, Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and Régis Marodon, the Special Advisor on Sustainable Finance of the Agence française de développement (AFD). The team members include
Xinshun RU, the research director, Wanxuan REN and Beina XIA, the project managers, Longyu LI, Vaibhav MISHRA, Yanjie YUAN, and Rui ZHAO, the core research assistants, and several other research assistants.

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2026 AADFI Annual General Assembly

The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) is pleased to announce that its 2026 Annual General Assembly will take place from May 24 to 29, 2026, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on the sidelines of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings.

The Annual General Assembly will be held on the theme “Augmenting Sovereign Finance in Africa: DFIs Unlocking Growth and Resilience through NAFA,” with a focus on the transformative role of African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in strengthening Africa’s financial sovereignty. The discussions will align with the AfDB-led New African Financial Architecture (NAFA), a system-level framework designed to mobilize long-term investment, reduce Africa’s cost of capital, and reinforce resilience through coordinated financial systems and deeper domestic capital markets.

The Annual General Assembly will convene leaders of African DFIs, government officials, regional institutions, and development partners to further explore how African DFIs can catalyze local investment, de-risk strategic projects, and strengthen economic autonomy to build resilience against global shocks and bridge the continent’s infrastructure funding gap.

Further details will be shared in the coming weeks.