This publication provides an explanation of the current global trade finance gaps amid market failures as well as perceived regulatory risk. It presents an analysis of the recent trends of de-risking and the reasons for falling correspondent banking relationships and shows how the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Financial Stability Board (FSB) have worked together to respond to this issue since 2017.
This report Trade Finance in Africa Overcoming Challenges is based on primary surveys conducted by the African Development Bank Two questionnaires were distributed to commercial banks in 2013 and 2015 in order to report on their trade finance activities during the periods 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 respectively. In these surveys, trade finance refers to financing activities aimed at supporting external trade only.
This report, A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity , synthesizes those efforts and advances a set of “Geneva Principles for a Global Green New Deal” that can form the foundations for a new multilateral trade and investment regime that has shared prosperity and sustainable development as its core goals.
This report aims to enhance understanding of the implications, capacity needs and enabling conditions for trade liberalization of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), with focus on developing countries. It focuses its analysis on five ESTs, namely solar photovoltaic cells (PVs), water filters, waste incinerators, gas filtering machinery, hemp and flax fibers.
This publication illustrates how trade can support action by governments, companies, innovators, and consumers to improve economies and protect the environment.