Development Finance Institution (2024)

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Spurring additional capital to advance the UN Sustainable
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What we do

The J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution (JPM DFI) was established in January 2020 to mobilize finance in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in emerging economies. The JPM DFI seeks to expand J.P. Morgan’s sustainable development-oriented financing activities by i) applying its impact methodology to assess the anticipated impact of transactions; ii) originating and structuring sustainable development finance transactions; and iii) identifying sources of capital interested in financing opportunities with measurable development impact. By supporting the origination and distribution of financial products to institutional investors, acting as investors or lenders, who are interested in financing sustainable development, the JPM DFI aims to build sustainable development as a traded asset class.

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Annual reports

2022

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2021

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2020

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What we offer

The JPM DFI applies its impact methodology to assess transactions with public and private sector clients and official development institutions (ODIs) that may promote economic and social/sustainable development in countries eligible to borrow from the World Bank. In particular, the JPM DFI offering includes:

Impact

assessment

Using the JPM DFI methodology to assess the anticipated development impact of transactions and assist clients in communicating the expected contributions of their transactions towards advancing the UN SDGs.

Structuring

Creating scalable financing structures with the goal of catalyzing investment from both private and public sector investors.

Distribution

Identifying sources of capital that seek investments with both financial returns and sustainable development impact.

Our clients

Corporates and
sovereigns

As Development Finance Structuring Agent (DFSA), we assist corporate and sovereign clients in preparing disclosures of the anticipated development impact of their intended projects or activities in emerging markets. We provide a development impact assessment, a report that applies our methodology to the transaction, produces an intensity score, and provides a framework for reporting on the impact of the transaction over its time.

Investors

The JPM DFI assists investors to identify investment opportunities in transactions with anticipated contributions to the UN SDGs.

Official

Development

Institutions

(ODIs)

The JPM DFI collaborates with ODIs (such as national and multilateral development banks) on transactions with sustainable development impact. For example, J.P.Morgan may serve as a bond underwriter for the ODIs and may work with DFIs that act as an anchor investor in a transaction.

Insights

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Unpacked: Development Finance

Learn how development finance plays an important role in funding sustainable projects, like clean water, in emerging markets, and why there’s a push for private institutions to play a more active role in having an impact.

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Unpacked: Development Finance

Learn how development finance plays an important role in funding sustainable projects, like clean water, in emerging markets, and why there’s a push for private institutions to play a more active role in having an impact.

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Affordable and clean energy, widespread access to healthcare and education, quality jobs and infrastructure, safe and sustainable cities. These are pretty ambitious goals for developing countries, so how can we get there? By raising about an extra 2.5 trillion dollars of annual financing until the year 2030.

This is: Development Finance Unpacked

Back in 1944, the concept of development finance was born. Institutions like the World Bank were created to fund the rebuilding of vital infrastructure and services across efforts of war-torn European countries.

Since then, development finance has evolved into what it is today: Funding projects that improve the quality of life and well-being of people in developing countries.

In September 2000, a critical milestone took place when all United Nations members agreed on a set of development goals to achieve by 2015 called the “Millennium Development Goals.”

The idea? To rally world leaders around efforts to fight extreme poverty, expand access to quality jobs and healthcare, and more.

As 2015 approached, the United Nations formed 17 new Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030. They aimed to advance progress on things like: clean water, infrastructure, education, sustainable farming, improved mobility, and more.

Sustainability is the connecting force between them, emphasizing the necessary balance between economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection.

The estimated total investment needed to achieve the SDGs in emerging economies ranges between 3.3 to 4.5 trillion dollars per year.

Currently, we’re only half way there. According to the United Nations, there is a 2.5 trillion dollar gap of development finance – per year – until 2030.

Historically, the development financing has primarily come from public institutions, which are owned and operated by government shareholders.

It can also come from multilateral institutions, like the World Bank. They receive funding from multiple member governments and use it across projects in developing countries. Currently, around one hundred and forty countries are eligible to borrow from the World Bank.

However, this annual funding gap can’t be closed by public institutions alone. To do it the private sector – think multinational corporations or financial institutions – must play a leading role.

Private organizations can offer more capital, access to investors, structuring expertise and a global network.

It could be a direct investment like opening a factory, or a portfolio investment, like an asset manager buying a bond from a government to provide clean water.

Let’s look at an example of how development finance works. Let’s say a government agency in Saharan Africa, to build new infrastructure to provide clean water. While this may intuitively feel “developmental”, a development finance institution will thoroughly evaluate whether this qualifies as a development finance opportunity.

Certain questions could include: Will the infrastructure serve areas that struggle to access clean water? Will it be resilient to climate change? Does the agency provide quality jobs and training to employees?

If a project meets the necessary requirements, the development finance institution will connect this opportunity with potential investors – usually those interested in supporting development finance activities, like an impact investor or an ESG investment fund manager.

From there, projects that support the SDGs and have impact in developing countries, receive their needed funding and we move one step closer to closing that 2.5 trillion annual dollar gap.

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How Can Sustainable Finance Make a Global Impact?
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Mobilizing private capital toward sustainable development

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Deals and
transactions

Learn about the deals the DFI team has led and the impact they are having in advancing and supporting emerging markets.

Improving connectivity across Africa

J.P.Morgan acted as joint global coordinator, joint bookrunner and DFSA for AXIAN Telecom’s debut $420 million five-year bond in February 2022. AXIAN Telecom operates across Africa and is a leading provider of telecommunications, mobile money services and digital infrastructure. The transaction is expected to bolster the company’s operations in Tanzania, Togo and Uganda and to improve telecom connectivity in Africa.


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Supporting trade expansion in Latin America

In February 2022, J.P.Morgan acted as mandated lead arranger, sole structuring agent and DFSA for Yilport Holding’s $127 million ECA-covered loan for the expansion and modernization of the Puerto Bolívar Port terminal in Ecuador. Upon completion, the port is expected to become the largest container terminal on the Pacific Coast of Latin America, enabling the country to increase and diversify its exports.


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Funding a large-scale infrastructure project in Brazil

In August 2022, J.P.Morgan acted as the guarantee issuer and DFSA for Acciona's syndicated letter of credit to fund the construction of São Paulo Metro Line 6, the largest public-private infrastructure project (in terms of funding) in Latin America. Upon completion, the São Paulo Metro Line 6 is anticipated to have a capacity of over 600,000 passengers a day, which will improve mobility for the 260,000 inhabitants of Brasilândia, a low-income neighborhood. The Brazilian Development Bank provided 6.9 billion BRL ($1.3 billion) with J.P.Morgan guaranteeing 283 million BRL ($54 million).


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Helping LATAM Airlines rebuild

J.P.Morgan acted as lead left bookrunner and DFSA for LATAM Airlines' $1.15 billion dual-tranche bond offering and joint lead arranger, joint bookrunner and DFSA for the company's $1.1 billion Term B loan in October 2022. The financing supports LATAM Airlines in emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is anticipated to help improve its route network and climate change mitigation efforts.


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Financing solar projects in India

J.P.Morgan issued a green standby letter of credit of 1.05 billion Indian Rupees ($13.2 million) and acted as DFSA for ReNew's power purchase agreement (PPA) with Amazon in October 2022. ReNew is constructing a 210-megawatt solar power project in India under a long-term PPA with Amazon's energy trading entity. The project supports Amazon's global objective of powering its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025.


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Contacts

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Arsalan Mahtafar

Executive Director
Head of the JPM DFI
+1 (212) 270 8088

Full bio

Arsalan Mahtafar
Executive Director
Head of the JPM DFI

Arsalan Mahtafar leads the JPM DFI in its mission to channel private capital towards investments with development impact.

As a founding member of the JPM DFI, Arsalan worked with leading development banks to create the JPM DFI methodology, and frequently collaborates with global institutions to establish standards for impact measurement and management in capital markets.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, Arsalan was a manager within McKinsey’s Economic Development Practice, where he advised governments on national development plans and industrial policy. Arsalan holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University and dual Bachelors in Business Administration and International Political Economy from UC Berkeley.

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Allie Barry

Vice President
+1 (212) 622 3185

Full bio

Allie Barry
Vice President

Allie Barry is a Vice President of the JPM DFI who focuses on several JPM DFI functions including deal origination, structuring, development qualification, and investor syndication.

Allie joined the JPM DFI from the firm’s Management Associate Program, a leadership development program. Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, Allie worked as an associate at Glade Brook Capital. Allie holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Mia Lu

Associate
+1 (212) 622 3104

Full bio

Mia Lu
Associate

Mia Lu is an Associate in the JPM DFI. Mia focuses on applying the DFI methodology to Banking and Markets transactions across the CIB to assess their development impact in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Qualified transactions contribute to the firm’s 2030 $2.5tn Sustainable Development Target. Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, Mia worked at International Finance Corporation(IFC) of the World Bank Group, where she assisted IFC’s partnership with asset managers in green bond fund advisory service and management. Before IFC, Mia was a Global Markets Associate at Eurasia Group. Mia holds dual Masters in Public Policy and Economics from Georgetown University and a Bachelor in International Affairs and Economics from George Washington University.

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Stephanie de Lesseps

Analyst
+1 (212) 464 0173

Full bio

Stephanie de Lesseps
Analyst

Stephanie de Lesseps is an Analyst on the JPM DFI team and provides support to the JPM DFI functions in her role. Stephanie joins the team from the J.P.Morgan Private Bank within Asset & Wealth Management, where she worked with institutional families, endowments, and not-for-profits to advise them on multi-asset investments, custom credit, and complex transactions across their balance sheets. As part of Stephanie’s role in the Private Bank, and as sustainability lead for Family Wealth, she focused on pitching and bringing sustainable investing opportunities to her client base.

Stephanie graduated Cum Laude and Dean’s List from Georgetown University in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French, with a completion of the French Honors Thesis with a Distinction mention. She studied at Sciences Po, Université de Strasbourg as a direct matriculation student as part of her college curriculum. She holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, Series 79, and Series 63.

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Daniel Rocha Correa

Analyst
+1 (646) 824 8668

Full bio

Daniel Rocha Correa
Analyst

Daniel joined the JPM DFI as an analyst and provides support to the JPM DFI functions in his role. He was a graduate consultant for the World Bank, analyzing pension funds’ progress toward sustainability. He also worked for a consulting firm, The Bassiouni Group, where he analyzed economic trends, ESG and public policy in Latin America. Before that, he worked for five years as a lawyer specializing in corporate law, capital markets, venture capital and debt restructuring in Brazil.

Daniel graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in international affairs and a concentration in international finance and economic policy and holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of São Paulo. As part of his university studies, he studied at Paris I, Pantheón-Sorbonne University as a direct matriculation student and holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 79, and Series 63.

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Jiten Wignarajah

Executive Director, Development and Multilateral Institutions Coverage
Development and Multilateral Institutions
+44 (207) 134 7675

Full bio

Jiten Wignarajah
Executive Director, Development and Multilateral Institutions Coverage
Development and Multilateral Institutions

Jiten is responsible for covering development and multilateral institutions and making use of their mobilization products to originate sustainable development transactions for clients in emerging markets, in conjunction with J.P. Morgan’s product teams. Jiten closely collaborates with the J.P. Morgan DFI in structuring “blended finance transactions,” which include incorporating capital from development and multilateral institutions with those of impact-focused institutional investors.

Jiten started his career in J.P. Morgan’s Securitized Products Group where he was responsible for originating, structuring and distributing structured finance products for European and emerging market clients. He has over 17 years of experience working with development banks, financial institutions, sponsors and corporate clients. Jiten studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

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Daniel Zelikow

Vice Chair
Chair of the JPM DFI Governing Board
+1 (212) 585 3758

Full bio

Daniel Zelikow
Vice Chair
Chair of the Governing Board of J.P.Morgan Development Finance Institution

Daniel Zelikow is Vice Chair, Public Sector, at J.P.Morgan, Global Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, and Chair of the Governing Board of the JPM DFI. He leads a team that manages the bank’s business with public sector clients. In 2020, he launched the JPM DFI to scale up the firm’s financing of development challenges in emerging markets.

Immediately prior to re-joining J.P.Morgan in 2010, Daniel was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. While with the IADB, he was instrumental in defining a new corporate strategy, doubling the volume of client operations, devising and executing the IADB’s response to the global financial crisis, and bringing about significant management and financial reforms. He also chaired the management committees on policy, operations, and risk, and he chaired the Board of Executive Directors in the President’s absence.

Daniel was previously with J.P.Morgan and headed the firm’s emerging markets sovereign debt origination and its liability management group. He also managed a New York-based investment banking practice focused on government financial institutions, multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and sovereigns.

Prior to joining J.P.Morgan in 1999, he held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, he was the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance and also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Advisor to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania in Tirana.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards.

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Arsalan Mahtafar Executive Director Head of the JPM DFI

Arsalan Mahtafar
Executive Director
Head of the JPM DFI

Arsalan Mahtafar leads the JPM DFI in its mission to channel private capital towards investments with development impact.

As a founding member of the JPM DFI, Arsalan worked with leading development banks to create the JPM DFI methodology, and frequently collaborates with global institutions to establish standards for impact measurement and management in capital markets.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, Arsalan was a manager within McKinsey’s Economic Development Practice, where he advised governments on national development plans and industrial policy. Arsalan holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University and dual Bachelors in Business Administration and International Political Economy from UC Berkeley.

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Allie Barry Vice President

Allie Barry
Vice President

Allie Barry is a Vice President of the JPM DFI who focuses on several JPM DFI functions including deal origination, structuring, development qualification, and investor syndication.

Allie joined the JPM DFI from the firm’s Management Associate Program, a leadership development program. Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, Allie worked as an associate at Glade Brook Capital. Allie holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Mia Lu Associate

Mia Lu
Associate

Mia Lu is an Associate in the JPM DFI. Mia focuses on applying the DFI methodology to Banking and Markets transactions across the CIB to assess their development impact in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Qualified transactions contribute to the firm’s 2030 $2.5tn Sustainable Development Target. Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, Mia worked at International Finance Corporation(IFC) of the World Bank Group, where she assisted IFC’s partnership with asset managers in green bond fund advisory service and management. Before IFC, Mia was a Global Markets Associate at Eurasia Group. Mia holds dual Masters in Public Policy and Economics from Georgetown University and a Bachelor in International Affairs and Economics from George Washington University.

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Stephanie de Lesseps Analyst

Stephanie de Lesseps
Analyst

Stephanie de Lesseps is an Analyst on the JPM DFI team and provides support to the JPM DFI functions in her role. Stephanie joins the team from the J.P.Morgan Private Bank within Asset & Wealth Management, where she worked with institutional families, endowments, and not-for-profits to advise them on multi-asset investments, custom credit, and complex transactions across their balance sheets. As part of Stephanie’s role in the Private Bank, and as sustainability lead for Family Wealth, she focused on pitching and bringing sustainable investing opportunities to her client base.

Stephanie graduated Cum Laude and Dean’s List from Georgetown University in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French, with a completion of the French Honors Thesis with a Distinction mention. She studied at Sciences Po, Université de Strasbourg as a direct matriculation student as part of her college curriculum. She holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, Series 79, and Series 63.

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Daniel Rocha Correa Analyst

Daniel Rocha Correa
Analyst

Daniel joined the JPM DFI as an analyst and provides support to the JPM DFI functions in his role. He was a graduate consultant for the World Bank, analyzing pension funds’ progress toward sustainability. He also worked for a consulting firm, The Bassiouni Group, where he analyzed economic trends, ESG and public policy in Latin America. Before that, he worked for five years as a lawyer specializing in corporate law, capital markets, venture capital and debt restructuring in Brazil.

Daniel graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in international affairs and a concentration in international finance and economic policy and holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of São Paulo. As part of his university studies, he studied at Paris I, Pantheón-Sorbonne University as a direct matriculation student and holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 79, and Series 63.

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Jiten Wignarajah Executive Director Development and Multilateral Institutions

Jiten Wignarajah
Executive Director
Development and Multilateral Institutions

Jiten is responsible for covering development and multilateral institutions and making use of their mobilization products to originate sustainable development transactions for clients in emerging markets, in conjunction with J.P. Morgan’s product teams. Jiten closely collaborates with the J.P. Morgan DFI in structuring “blended finance transactions,” which include incorporating capital from development and multilateral institutions with those of impact-focused institutional investors.

Jiten started his career in J.P. Morgan’s Securitized Products Group where he was responsible for originating, structuring and distributing structured finance products for European and emerging market clients. He has over 17 years of experience working with development banks, financial institutions, sponsors and corporate clients. Jiten studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

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Daniel Zelikow Vice Chair Chair of the Governing Board of J.P.Morgan Development Finance Institution

Daniel Zelikow
Vice Chair
Chair of the Governing Board of J.P.Morgan Development Finance Institution

Daniel Zelikow is Vice Chair, Public Sector, at J.P.Morgan, Global Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, and Chair of the Governing Board of the JPM DFI. He leads a team that manages the bank’s business with public sector clients. In 2020, he launched the JPM DFI to scale up the firm’s financing of development challenges in emerging markets.

Immediately prior to re-joining J.P.Morgan in 2010, Daniel was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. While with the IADB, he was instrumental in defining a new corporate strategy, doubling the volume of client operations, devising and executing the IADB’s response to the global financial crisis, and bringing about significant management and financial reforms. He also chaired the management committees on policy, operations, and risk, and he chaired the Board of Executive Directors in the President’s absence.

Daniel was previously with J.P.Morgan and headed the firm’s emerging markets sovereign debt origination and its liability management group. He also managed a New York-based investment banking practice focused on government financial institutions, multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and sovereigns.

Prior to joining J.P.Morgan in 1999, he held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, he was the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance and also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Advisor to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania in Tirana.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards.

Frequently asked
questions

The JPM DFI augments JPM’s existing emerging markets client offering by addressing the growing demand from institutional investors for transactions with credible impact disclosure and reporting. By applying the JPM DFI impact methodology, we help our emerging markets clients assess the anticipated development impact of their transaction and communicate that impact in a standard format to the investor community. Through increased investor engagement, we hope to create a “virtuous cycle”, whereby more emerging markets issuers recognise the benefit of setting clear sustainable development targets which can be measured and tracked. This improved disclosure from emerging markets clients should further support investor confidence and capital flows into sustainable development assets in emerging markets.

The JPM DFI does not have its own balance sheet capacity. The JPM DFI provides its services in conjunction with J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) products. The CIB, among other things, originates and structures financial instruments for distribution/syndication to the ultimate institutional investors to such assets. The JPM DFI helps emerging markets corporates and sovereigns assess the anticipated development impact of their financing needs and identify institutional investors seeking to provide capital or risk mitigation products to projects and transactions with sustainable development impact. In doing so, the JPM DFI seeks to scale up the CIB’s origination of such transactions and accelerate the mobilization of capital to these investment opportunities.

In recent years, we have seen a growing interest in ESG and impact investing from all market participants. As the ESG wave grows, we have observed meaningful changes in behavior and increased interest in ESG products from investors (ESG-aligned funds), corporates (focus on ESG frameworks and targets) and commercial banks (public commitments). J.P. Morgan has also advanced its ESG strategy by forming new teams focused on climate change and sustainable development, and by announcing a $2.5 trillion target by 2030 to finance and facilitate transactions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development. In 2021, transactions assessed by the JPM DFI accounted for the largest contribution to this target.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. The SDGs are 17 interconnected global goals and 169 unique targets aimed at ending poverty, improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our natural ecosystems. While some of the goals (e.g., SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy and SDG 13 Climate Action) are directly aimed at mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change, a focus on economic, social, and environmental sustainability is a common feature underlying all of the SDGs.

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FAQs

What is a development financial institution? ›

Development financial institution (DFI), also known as a Development bank, is a financial institution that provides risk capital for economic development projects on a non-commercial basis.

What is the role of development finance institutions? ›

Mandate of DFIs is to cater for unbanked/unbankable economic sectors on account of market failure. DFI activity therefore lies at the heart of financial inclusion policy, and plays a key role in economic and social development; b.

What is the meaning of development finance? ›

Development finance is the efforts of local communities to support, encourage and catalyze expansion through public and private investment in physical development, redevelopment and/or business and industry.

Is the World Bank a development finance institution? ›

Historically, the development financing has primarily come from public institutions, which are owned and operated by government shareholders. It can also come from multilateral institutions, like the World Bank. They receive funding from multiple member governments and use it across projects in developing countries.

What are the 3 types of financial institutions? ›

Banks, Thrifts, and Credit Unions - What's the Difference? There are three major types of depository institutions in the United States. They are commercial banks, thrifts (which include savings and loan associations and savings banks) and credit unions.

Is IFC a development finance institution? ›

IFC - a member of the World Bank Group - is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We leverage the power of the private sector and share expertise to transform ideas into investments for green growth, inclusive jobs and impactful projects.

How do development banks work? ›

development bank, national or regional financial institution designed to provide medium- and long-term capital for productive investment, often accompanied by technical assistance, in poor countries.

Is the IFC a DFI? ›

IFC is the only DFI or blended finance implementer taking this step to date.

What is the role of finance in the development? ›

Finance is the paid financing of capital between various sectors of the economy, giving capital support to industrial upgrading as well as economic reorganisation, and serving as a crucial cornerstone for the market economy's long-term development.

What is the core of development finance? ›

The goal of development finance is to create positive social, economic or environmental outcomes through investments made by financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds in addition to contributions made by development finance institutions, multilateral partners and NGOs.

What are the benefits of development finance? ›

Here are some of the benefits of development finance:
  • Quick access to funding.
  • Bridging loans for project gaps.
  • Heavy refurbishment projects.
  • Extended loan terms.
  • Flexible repayment options.
  • Interest Rates.
  • Repayment Periods.
  • Pitfalls to Avoid.
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Why study development finance? ›

You will gain an understanding – on Master's level – of the complexities of the different development finance resources available to poor countries, especially in Africa. You will acquire the skills to help formulate and implement policies to make this happen.

What are the examples of DFI? ›

What are the Development Financial Institutions in India? India had set up extremely successful DFIs such as Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) in 1948, Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) in 1964 and Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) in 1955.

Is the IMF a development finance institution? ›

Driving Economic Growth: The Role of Development Finance Institutions is a 1.5-day course that analyzes the actors and tools that shape economic growth in developing countries, from the perspective of both agencies and banks and the recipient countries affected by their policies. Development finance institutions like ...

Which country has the highest debt in the World Bank? ›

India takes the top spot. The world's most populous country owed $38.3bn to the WB at the end of 2022, down by almost $1.5bn from a year earlier. India's outstanding balance is almost double that of the next biggest debtor, Indonesia, with $20.6bn.

What is an example of institution development? ›

Institutional development means those public and/or private facilities having a primarily public-serving function, including, but not limited to, government offices, police and fire stations, libraries, activity centers, schools, health care facilities, educational and religious training centers, and water-oriented ...

What are the types of community development financial institutions? ›

Four types of institutions are included in the definition of a CDFI: CD banks, CD credit unions, CD loan funds (most of which are nonprofit), and CD venture capital funds. CDFIs may be certified by the CDFI Fund. Certification is often necessary to receive CDFI Fund support.

What do you mean by development bank? ›

Development banks are specialized institutions that provide medium and long-term credit lending facilities. Their main objective is to serve the public interest instead of earning profits. They provide financial assistance to both public as well as private sector institutions.

What is an example of a financial institution? ›

Types of financial institutions include: Banks. Credit unions.

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