Essays about: "Development Finance Institutions"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 47 essays containing the words Development Finance Institutions.
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16. Bankrolling Adverse Human Rights Impact in Development Projects - A study of the role and responsibilities of international financial institutions with respect to human rights in the development finance context and the implications of using intermediary commercial banks
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Den ökade andelen kapital som riktas mot hållbar utveckling genom att med offentliga medel frigöra privata investeringar i utvecklingsprojekt genomförda av privata aktörer kan, vid en första anblick, verka som ett framgångsrikt resultat av mobiliseringen av nödvändiga finansiella medel för att uppnå Agenda 2030 och de globala hållbarhetsmålen. Inkluderingen av den privata sektorn att bidra till, och lösa, samhällsutvecklingsfrågor med offentliga medel har emellertid haft uppenbara konsekvenser i form av en ökad risk för skadlig inverkan på mänskliga rättigheter, och har tydliggjort ett hålrum i möjligheterna till ansvarsutkrävande, eftersom privata institutioner är verksamma inom andra operativa och rättsliga system än offentliga internationella institutioner. READ MORE
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17. Seeking Climate Justice in the Financial Sector: Interpreting the fiduciary duty of Estonian pension funds based on their contribution to reinforcing/tackling climate change
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Climate change – considered as the most acute risk to our planet – is mostly fuelled by the oper-ations of influential corporates who are financially supported by financial institutions, which have traditionally specialised on profit-maximisation and neglected climate risks in investment processes. However, considering economy’s increasing financialisation and the growing science behind the financial materiality of climate risks, disregarding these risks potentially harms in-vestment returns and the society more broadly. READ MORE
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18. Discipline and Freedom in Financial Markets: How regulation and liberalisation influence the gains from finance
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper investigates how the financial sector's institutional characteristics can allow an economy to benefit from financial deepening and limit the negative effects it can have. Specifically, it tests how macroprudential regulation and financial liberalisation affect the shape and behaviour of the finance–growth relationship. READ MORE
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19. What affects the VC spatial clustering in China? Research on determinants of location selection and VC performance
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : As a key propeller for the economy development and technology industrialization, venture capital (VC) has attracted the attention of both academics and policy makers around the world. In China, the spatial distribution of VC industry exhibits a high degree of agglomeration: More than 60% of Chinese VC firms cluster in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong and VC investment performance in these four provinces behaves significant better than other non VC clustering regions. READ MORE
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20. Internet finance to SMEs in Botswana – A field study
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
