The workings and challenges of Development Finance Institutions: The case of the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) Download

The workings and challenges of Development Finance Institutions: The case of the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG)

João Paiva Silva

This article examines the workings of DEG - the German development finance institution, focusing on how this institution balances (and has historically balanced) its financial, developmental, and geopolitical/geoeconomics mandates.

  • 2021
  • CEsA/ISEG

Understanding the Singaporean approach to state ownership:
’commercially viable strategic alignment’ in historical perspective Download

Understanding the Singaporean approach to state ownership: ’commercially viable strategic alignment’ in historical perspective

João Paiva Silva

This article provides an Institutional Political Economy analysis of Singapore’s approach to state ownership.

  • 2021
  • CEsA/ISEG

Pragmatism as a pillar of the New Developmentalism Download

Pragmatism as a pillar of the New Developmentalism

João Paiva Silva

This paper argues that New Developmentalism, by contrast with Neoliberalism, lacks a strong philosophical foundation. Pragmatism is a relevant candidate.

  • 2020
  • CEsA/ISEG

The origins and institutional evolution of Development Finance Institution (DFI)- activities: the case of Private Sector Investment Finance Download

The origins and institutional evolution of Development Finance Institution (DFI)- activities: the case of Private Sector Investment Finance

Soyeun Kim

This paper investigates JICA's Private Sector Investment Finance program in institutional perspective

  • 2020
  • Sogang University

The rise and transformation of CDC in the UK's development aid policy Download

The rise and transformation of CDC in the UK's development aid policy

João Paiva Silva

This paper is an in-depth case study of the British CDC – one of the world’s largest DFIs - focusing on its transformation since the late 1990s, which marked a period of major change for this institution.

  • 2021
  • CEsA/ISEG

Calculating the Big Balance Sheet: How Chinese Development Finance Bundles Policy and Business Download

Calculating the Big Balance Sheet: How Chinese Development Finance Bundles Policy and Business

Yang Jiang

This paper investigates the China Development Bank (CDB) and the China Import/Export Bank (China Exim) and assesses synergies between national goals and business facilitation

  • 2021
  • DIIS