OECD Development Centre Working Papers
The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. This series of working papers is intended to disseminate the OECD Development Centre’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned. These papers are generally available in the original English or French, with a summary in the other language.
- ISSN: 18151949 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151949
Banking on Development
Private Banks ans Aid Donors in Developing Countries
Over the past decade we have witnessed a double convergence. Aid donors have
developed a growing interest in the private sector while private banks have set about creating
corporate social responsibility programs, sustainable lending and microfinance programmes. As
a consequence, the dialogue between private banks and aid donors has been intensifying,
opening new avenues for collaboration. The aim of this paper is to map the potential synergies
between private banks and aid donors. A survey of private bank lending towards developing
countries is undertaken in order to identify the private banks most active in those economies and
provide an analytical tool to help identify the scope for public and private partnerships. We find
an international division of labour in bank lending: within the developing world, banks from
OECD countries tend to focus their credit on specific regions and countries. This mapping of
private bank lending also allows us to pinpoint concrete examples of best practices in private
bank and financial actors/aid donors collaborations. We follow by discussing some of the more
important cases in the field, and conclude with the potential implications for improved
partnerships between private banks and donor organisations.
Keywords: Latin America, development finance, bank, lending, Africa, Asia, aid donors
JEL:
O1: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Development;
F3: International Economics / International Finance;
G21: Financial Economics / Financial Institutions and Services / Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
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