1st Edition
Public Banks and Public Purpose From Short-Term Crisis Responses to Long-Term Climate Prospects
Introduction
Public Banks and Public Purpose: From Pandemic Responses to Future Climate Prospects
Diana V. Barrowclough and Thomas Marois
1. The Role of Public Development Banks During the Pandemic: Impact Evaluation of BICE's Innovative Credit Response
Alejandro M. Danon, Rafael Tessone and Guido Zack
2. The Double Function of Turkey’s Public Banks and Reinterpretation of Mandates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ali Rıza Güngen
3. From State Developmentalism to Financial Populism: The ‘Bank of Welfare' and Mexico’s Moral Economy
Nadine Reis and Germán Vargas Magaña
4. Mandate Matters: Evolving Views and Counter-cyclical Surprises from the World’s Newest, Southern-led, Multilateral Development Banks*
Diana Barrowclough
5. National and Multilateral Development Banks during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of the IADB and CDC-BII during the Second Phase
Marco Carreras and Stephany Griffith-Jones
6. Public Development Banks as Essential Infrastructure: Covid, the KfW, and Public Purpose
Thomas Marois
7. The Italian Development Bank: A Dynamic View of CDP’s Public Mission
Anita Quas and Daniela Vandone
8. Public Banking, Overlapping Emergencies, and the Eurozone Periphery: The Portuguese Case
Victoria Stadheim
Biography
Diana V. Barrowclough is a Senior Economist at United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Her research focuses on development finance, regional integration and cooperation, and sustainable economic policies. She has co-edited and authored numerous UN and other publications, including Southern-Led Development Finance: Solutions from the Global South (2021) and South-South Regional Financial Arrangements: Collaboration Towards Resilience (2022)
Thomas Marois is Professor of Political Economy, Canada Research Chair in Public Banking, and Director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University, Canada. His research investigates the role of public financial institutions in addressing climate change and promoting equitable development. He is the author of the award-winning Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation (2021).
