Global Symposium on Development Financial Institutions:
'Balancing Sustainability and Social Mandate: Development Financial Institutions in a New World'
19/09/2017 - 20/09/2017
Description
he symposium with the theme “Balancing Sustainability and Social Mandate: Development Financial Institutions in a New World” is intended to provide an avenue for various stakeholders of DFIs, which include government officials, regulators, DFIs, academia and researchers; to share, learn as well as exchanging of ideas on the global trends, current and future outlook, best practices & regulations, innovations and contemporary issues surrounding the development finance ecosystem.
Informations
Venue
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Organized by
The World Bank Group
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Schedule
The following are the broad objectives of the symposium:
- Assess the role and recent evolution of DFIs, including global trends, new paradigms in development finance, and new role for DFIs in fulfilling the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
- Showcase successful cases of DFIs in SME finance, agriculture finance, export-import finance, infrastructure finance.
- Distill sound practices on corporate governance, regulation & supervision, risk management, and monitoring and evaluation of DFIs
- Identify social and environmental standards for DFIs; and
- Discuss the challenges faced by DFIs looking forward.
