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World Bank’s China exit could lead to ‘shrinking balance sheet’, says green finance specialist

World Bank’s planned phase‑out of lending to China by 2031 removes a reliable borrower, risking a smaller balance sheet unless governance and lending rules are updated to channel more capital into riskier, lower‑income countries, according to green finance specialist Christoph Nedopil Wang.
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Water stress increases downside risk to credit ratings of lower-income countries: AIIB

Improved water pricing can crowd much-needed investments into the water cycle and facilitate transfers from advanced to developing economies, the bank’s economists told Eco-Business.
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Oxfam Asia doubles down on questioning multilateral banks’ pursuit of private climate finance

Sunil Acharya, Oxfam’s policy and campaigns coordinator for Asia, tells Eco-Business why he thinks the greater use of guarantees to mobilise financing in the private sector is problematic, especially as MDB lending is still at market rates. Globally, the charity is pushing to “decolonise the aid sector” which it says is broken.
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NGOs boycott AIIB annual meeting, citing a ‘troubling pattern of exclusion’ of impacted communities

While this year’s forum is the first to include civil society talks, NGOs say the China-based multilateral bank did not give them control over the agenda. Doubts have also been cast on the efficacy of AIIB's accountability mechanism for environmental and social issues, which has rejected all five complaints to date.

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25 November 2021

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Sorting out the messy economics for a fair climate transition

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