National development banks (NDBs) have transformed from outdated relics of national
industrial policy to central pillars of the European Union's economic project. This trend …

A feature characteristic of countries that were late industrializers was their reliance on
financial institutions geared to the task of financing capital-intensive investments with direct …

ABSTRACT The European Commission's Investment Plan for Europe and the enduring
economic crisis has brought state-owned development banks again to the fore of public and …

For a long time the topic of national development banks was limited to a debate between
admirers and detractors of these institutions, often inserted into a more general debate of …

While extensive literature exists on how economic globalisation has limited developing
countries' policy space for industrial policy, the literature on how it has affected advanced …

This paper examines the European Union's strategy of governing the economy through
financial markets by focusing on the largely unacknowledged role of public development …

The paper considers the experience of the European Investment Bank and addresses policy
lessons for developing countries as they seek finance for development. The paper argues …

Regional development banks (RDB) have become increasingly important in the world
economy, but have also been relatively under-researched to date. This timely volume …

In April 1983, a White Paper on financial integration 1 by the European Commission called
for further work to be done in order to achieve a better allocation of savings and investment …

The ongoing Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007–2008 has dramatically called into
question the previously dominant neoliberal approach to macroeconomic and financial …