Finance
Working paper
China's overseas lending
This paper documents the surge in China’s capital exports to the rest of the world during the past decades. While China’s dominant footprint in world trade is well known, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood. This paper helps fill this void by establishing the size, destination, and characteristics of China’s...
Report
High-performance health financing for universal health coverage: driving sustainable, inclusive growth in the 21st century
This report and the initiatives it recommends for countries and partners, including the G20, aim to identify specific unmet needs to which the G20 Finance Track can contribute, consistent with the guidance on health financing for Universal Health Coverage.
Working paper
The potential for blockchain technology in corporate governance
This paper explores the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services and outlines regulatory responses, to set the scene for future work in this area on corporate governance.
Discussion paper
From funding to financing: transforming SDG finance for country success
This paper describes recent progress, identifies key gaps and outlines a list of actions to advance efforts to improve efforts to support sustainable development finance.
Report
Pacific experiences with options relevant to climate change and disaster risk finance
The Pacific experiences detailed in this booklet are organised in terms of their relevance to the seven pillars of the Pacific Climate Change Finance Assessment Framework (PCCFAF). The booklet outlines broad regional observations of each of the seven dimensions of the PCCFAF and then presents relevant country or regional examples and corresponding lessons learnt in...