Publications

Book abstract
An in-depth account of public bank responses to the socio-economic crises resulting from Covid-19. Written by experts from around the world, the book offers a critical assessment of programs rolled out in different locations and asks how these actions could be improved in the future.

INTRODUCTION: PUBLIC BANKS MATTER AT A TIME OF COVID-19

Diana Barrowclough

Thomas Marois

David A. McDonald

RECLAIMING PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT BANKS TO FINANCE A SUSTAINABLE AND EQUITABLE RECOVERY POST COVID-19
María José Romero

THE COVID-19 CRISIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK WITH THE FAILING GLOBAL MICROCREDIT INDUSTRY

Milford Bateman

CORONAVIRUS AND THE EVOLVING ROLE OF CENTRAL BANKS: AVOIDING A "CLIMATE MINSKY MOMENT"

Diana Barrowclough

THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE DEVELOPMENT BANK AND COVID-19
Oscar Reyes

THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK IN TIMES OF COVID-19

Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, David Howarth and Helen Kavvadia

THE KFW AND COVID-19: COORDINATING PUBLIC FINANCE RESPONSES AT HOME AND ABROAD

Thomas Marois

THE "BANK OF WELFARE" AND MEXICO'S MORAL ECONOMY
Nadine Reis

PUBLIC BANKS AND INDIA'S INEFFECTIVE COVID-19 RESPONSE

C. P. Chandrasekhar

ARGENTINA'S COUNTERCYCLICAL CREDIT POLICY RESPONSE

Alfredo Schclarek Curutchet

NATIONAL AND MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS: THE ROLE OF IADB AND CDC

Marco Carreras and Stephany Griffith-Jones

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC CREDIT PROGRAMMES IN MITIGATING THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: BRAZIL’S EXPERIENCE

Alberto de Oliveira

THE PUBLIC BANKS AND PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA: CONFRONTING COVID-19 (IF NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY)

Godfrey Yeung

COVID-19 AND MEASURES TO SUPPORT ENTERPRISES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ITALY

Daniela Vandone, Marco Frigerio, Carlotta Zatti and Dalya Bakry

PUBLIC BANKING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: PORTUGAL’S CAIXA GERAL DE DEPÓSITOS

Victoria Stadheim

TURKEY’S PUBLIC BANKS AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Ali Rıza Güngen

COVID-19 AND PUBLIC BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES: A MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY?
Ellen Brown

SOUTH-SOUTH PUBLIC FINANCE: A RAPID REVIEW OF COOPERATION AND RESILIENCE TO FACE COVID-19

Diana Barrowclough

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON AADFI MEMBERS

Association of African Development Finance Institutions

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ADFIAP MEMBERS

Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific

EAPB STATEMENT ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC BANKS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS

European Association of Public Banks

RESPONSES OF LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANKS TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS PRECIPITATED BY COVID-19

Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions

Other publications

Credibility and class in the evolution of public banks: the case of Turkey
- Thomas Marois & Ali Riza Güngen (2016)
The Journal of Peasant Studies, 43:6, 1285-1309.

Towards a green public bank in the public interest
- Thomas Marois (2018)
Working Paper Resilience 2017
Conference. Geneva: UNRISD

Public banks and banking alternatives.
- Oscar Reyes (2020)
In O. Reyes, Change Finance, not the Climate, pp. 70-86 (Chap. 3). Amsterdam and Washington, DC: Transnational Institute and Institute for Policy Studies.

Making banks work better for development
- UNCTAD (2019)
Trade and Development Report 2019:
Financing a Global Green New Deal, 143-168 (Chap. VI). Geneva: UNCTAD.

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