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Transparency in the Climate Funds
This chapter examines the extent to which the standard of transparency is upheld within the policies and practices of the Climate Funds and assesses...
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The Interface of Islamic Finance and Sovereign Wealth Funds
The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of SWFs from a multidimensional perspective. It spans the...
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Participation in the Climate Funds
This chapter explores the extent to which the policies and practices of the Climate Funds ensure adequate stakeholder participation in project design...
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Accountability in the Climate Funds
This chapter evaluates the extent to which the Climate Funds can be deemed accountable to individuals based in recipient countries for the impacts of...
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Sustainable Finance: The Policy Framework
Rather than tackling climate change, most governments are still subsidizing fossil fuels. The EU has taken a global lead on develo** a legislative...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Climate Change
The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of SWFs from a multidimensional perspective. It spans the...
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The Need for a Change: Sustainable Finance
This chapter focuses on the birth and evolution of sustainable finance. The main steps that have been taken in the last century in this sector are...
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Challenges and Policy Recommendations for the Development of Green Finance in China
The development of green finance in China must integrate green development factors into all business work and operation processes, accelerate the...
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How Do Cooperative Banks Consider Climate Risk and Climate Change?
Climate change is one of the major trends that have been affecting cooperative banks in recent times. The cooperative banking sector has a central...
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EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021–2025
The European Investment Bank is one of the world’s main financiers of climate action and environmental sustainability. The decade 2021–2030 is a...
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The Climate Dimension of Fiscal Policy Sustainability: Best Practices in Green Budgeting and Lessons for Portugal
The green budgeting technique is being adopted by an increasing number of countries and has the potential to align fiscal policy objectives with...
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Does Foreign Green Finance Inspire Environmental, Social, and Governance Sustainability Metrics? Evidence from MENA Countries
The chapter aims to investigate the relationship between foreign green finance and environmental, social, and governance sustainability in MENA...
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The Development of the Global Green Finance Market: The Role of Banks and Non-banking Institutional Investors
The current trend in environmental project implementation seems to be a natural process, coinciding with global reforms and providing for the...
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Women in Entrepreneurial Finance: The Academic Perspective
This chapter is dedicated to examining the scholarly viewpoint about the involvement of women in the domain of entrepreneurial finance. In further...
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The Role of the Head of Finance and the Finance Department in Line Ministries and Other Public Organisations with the Application of PFM/IC
PFM/IC has a major impact upon the role and responsibilities of the head of finance. The role extends well beyond that of bookkeeper and financial...
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“Challenge the Development Finance Status Quo”—An Interview with Joan Larrea
This chapter summarizes my interview with Joan Larrea, CEO of Convergence the leading global network of blended finance practitioners. Joan was hired...
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Emerging Challenges in Urban Local Finance
This chapter assembles the basic issues in urban local finance in a historical context and covers later developments that challenge the existence of...
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Islamic Finance Contracts
This is a largely technical chapter that will provide a broad outline of the different legal structures within Islamic finance. This technical...
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Finance Academy Gender Inequity Case Study
The story in this chapter tells of asymmetric power in a male-only finance department of a business school. The power allows both overt...
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Transforming Finance: Exploring the Potential of Decentralized Business Models Enabled by Blockchain Technology
Blockchain technology has the potential to develop decentralized business model foundations by minimizing exchange costs, prospering distributed...