Events of project 'The Role of Public Development Banks'

FERDI and the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University are organizing a side event titled: "Public Development Banks - Balancing Public Policy Mandates with Financial Viability."

Patrick Guillaumont, president of FERDI, and Sosso Feindouno, research officer at Ferdi, organized a parallel session via videoconference on February 27, 2025.

Florian Léon, research officer at FERDI, will speak at the side session organized by I4CE.

Sosso Feindouno, Research Officer at FERDI, will speak during a breakout session organized by AFD and Stellenbosch University.

Side Event at the Second Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Seville, June 30 to July 3, 2025.

Matthieu Boussichas, Program Manager at Ferdi, was a panelist at this event organized by the Finance in Common initiative (FICS)

Florian Léon, a research offiicer at FERDI, will present the paper "Blended Binds: How DFI's Support Programs Stifle Bank Lending in Africa" at the World Bank headquarters in Paris (closed meeting).

Event organized by the FERDI at the IMF and World Bank Annual meetings, with the cooperation of the World Bank Board's offices EDS04 and EDS13.

The FERDI's Chair on International Development Finance Architecture is organizing six events in preparation for the June Paris Summit on Development Financing of Vulnerable Countries.

FERDI participated in Finance in Common Summit 2022 in Abidjan. Florian Leon, Research officer at FERDI, presented his work on public development banks.

The 14th AFD International Research Conference on Development, "The Visible Hand: Development Banks in Transition" took place in the framework of the Finance in Common Summit, the first global meeting of all public development banks.