GDFs - Global Development Finance

The World Bank's annual Global Development Finance combines a diagnosis of recent trends and prospects for capital flows to developing countries with an analysis of important policy issues, and is published in the spring of each year.

Global Development Finance 2008: The Role of International Banking
In the wake of financial turmoil in high income countries and amidst high food and energy prices, developing countries' growth was easing but was still robust, said this June 2008 report. Private capital flows to emerging markets were expected to drop by 2009.
Global Development Finance 2007: The Globalization of Corporate Finance in Developing Countries
This report examined low-income countries’ access to commercial debt markets and financial globalization of the corporate sector in developing countries.
Global Development Finance 2006: The Development Potential of Surging Capital Flows
The year 2005 was a landmark in global development finance. Private capital flows to developing countries reached a record net level of $483 billion, much of them going to middle–income countries that took advantage of the surge to improve their external debt profile and build official reserves of foreign exchange.
Global Development Finance 2005: Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability
This report embraced three key challenges: (i) Managing the vulnerability inherent in global economic and financial imbalances, (ii) Confronting the risks posed by the new complexities in developing country debt, and (iii) Mobilizing and diversifying sourcesof finance for low-income countries.
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