Impact

Financial Products & Client Solutions(View the entire series at documents.worldbank.org)

• Brazil - Financial Instruments for Energy-Efficient Cities
• Kenya Secures First IDA Cat DDO (2018)
• Supporting Côte d’Ivoire with an IBRD enclave loan using the future export revenue of cashew nuts (2018)
• Affordable Housing Finance in West Africa (2018)
• Supporting Energy Efficiency in Vietnam (2018)
• Insuring the Philippines Against Natural Disasters (2018)
• Helping Malaysia Develop the Green Sukuk Market (2018)
• Concessional Financing for Refugees and Host Communities in Middle-income Countries (2018)
• Taking the Risk out of Interest Rate Risk (2018)
• Supporting Energy Efficiency in Vietnam (2018)
• Managing Exposure to Oil Price Volatility in Uruguay (2016)
• Financing Education in Colombia (2015)
• Helping Small Island States Cope in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters (2015)
• Innovative Investment Project Financing Supports Energy Stabilizing Fund in Uruguay (2015)
• Accessing New Financial Markets and Improving Borrowing Terms in Serbia (2015)
• Managing Catastrophe Risk in Guatemala (2015)
• Blending Financing from Multiple Sources to Reduce the Overall Cost of Financing in China (2015)
• Customizing the Debt Repayment Schedule to Improve Fiscal Sustainability in Brazil (2015)
• Managing Catastrophe in Costa Rica
• Facilitating Catastrophe Risk Transfer (Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility)
• Alleviating Funding Pressures and Debt Roll-over Risks in Albania (2015)
• Insuring Against Natural Disaster Risk in Mexico (2015)
• Helping Morocco Mitigate Currency Risk on Liabilities Owed to a Third Party (2015)
• Local Currency Financing in Uruguay (2015)
• Accessing Local Currency Financing and Risk Management Tools at the Sub-national Level in Mexico (2015)
• Securing Long-Term Financing for Clean Technologies in Mexico (2015)
• Investing in Residential Energy Efficiency Programs in Mexico (2015)
• Leveraging World Bank Group Balance Sheet to Mobilize Financing for a Transport Project in Brazil (2015)
• Mitigating the Impact of Drought on Energy Production in Uruguay (2015)
• Boosting Investor Confidence in Indonesia (2015)
• Local Currency Financing at the Sub-national Level in Mexico (2015)
• Mitigating the Impact of Drought on Food Security in Malawi (2015)

Flagship Publication

Reserve Management Survey Report

• 4th Edition:Reserve Management Survey Report 2023: Insights into Public Asset Management
• 3rd Edition:Central Bank Reserve Management Practices: Insights into Public Asset Management (2021)
• 2nd Edition:Central Bank Reserve Management Practices: Insights into Public Asset Management from the Second RAMP Survey (2020)
• 1st Edition:Inaugural RAMP Survey on the Reserve Management Practices of Central Banks: Results and Observations (2018)

Thematic Studies Series

• Gold Investing Handbook for Asset Mangers
• Can Crypto-Assets Play a Role in Foreign Reserve Portfolios?: Not Today, and Likely Not in the Near Future
• ESG Investing: A Primer for Central Bank Reserve Managers
• Central Bank Governance and Reserve Portfolios Investment Policies: An Empirical Analysis
• RAMP Note Series (Members only. Please see Client Portal for documents.)
• The Convergence of Sovereign Environmental, Social and Governance Ratings(2021)

Articles & Blogs

• Has the pandemic fundamentally changed reserve management? Insights from 119 central banks
  World BankAll About FinanceBlog by Carmen Herrero, Philip Dongsoo Hong, Daniela Klingebiel, Robert Lucas and Maro Ruiz
• What challenges do central banks face to implement environmental, social, and governance investing?
  World BankAll About FinanceBlog by Eric Bouyé, Dr. Daniela Klingebiel and Marco Ruiz.
• Serving Public Asset Managers Globally for Two Decades: The Reserve Advisory & Management Partnership (RAMP)
  World BankVoicesBlog by MDCFO Anshula Kant, Vice President & Treasurer Jingdong Hua, Asset Management & Advisory Department Director Thérèse Couture.
• Strengthening Central Bank Reserve Management During a Global Crisis
  World BankVoicesBlog by MDCFO Anshula Kant, Vice President & Treasurer Jingdong Hua, Asset Management & Advisory Department Director Thérèse Couture, and RAMP Manager Dr. Daniela Klingebiel
• Public Asset Managers Reevaluate Investment Strategies amid Rising Interest Rates and Declining Growth Prospects
  World Bank, RAMP
• Two decades of investing in reserve managers: World Bank Treasury’s RAMPCentralBanking.com

Investor Newsletters

• 2018,2017,2016,2015

Green Bond Impact Reports

• 2017,2016,2015

Green Bond Investor Updates

• 2016,2015,2014(andFrancais),2013,2012,2011,2010,2009

Other Funding Program Publications

• Pension Fund Service: Green Bonds (2017)
• Pension Fund Service Local Government 2015. "Getting to Know the Green Bond Market"
• Emerging bond markets: No longer the next frontier (2014)
• A global issuer's perspective on structured products (2013)
• Forty years of World Bank bonds in Japan (2012)
• Global Growth, Opportunities and Challenges in the Sukuk Market: The role of Sukuk in meeting global development challenges (2011)
• The World Bank’s MultiCat Program:using catastrophe bonds to insure against natural disaster risks (2011)
• KangaNews Quarter Century Perspective, Doris Herrera-Pol and Andrea Dore (2011)
• Green bonds: a model to mobilise private capital to fund climate change mitigation and adaptation projects (2010)
• Euromoney Environmental Finance Handbook 2010. "Green bonds: a model to mobilise private capital to fund climate change mitigation and adaptation projects"
• The Environmentalist 2010. "Investing in low carbon development"
• Capital markets as greenhouse gas emission reduction drivers (2009)
• Do capital markets have a role in making catastrophe insurance a new development tool? (2008)
• Retail government debt programmes (2007)
• Emerging islamic capital markets: a quickening pace and new potential (2006)
• The opening of new markets to foreign issuers: what has changed in the new millennium? (2005)