This book collects contributions from international leading experts from academia and multilateral development banks on the opportunities and challenges for development finance in a post-pandemic world. Despite multilateralism reached its low point in 2020 with increasing tensions between major global powers and deglobalisation trends, the global scale of the coronavirus outbreak made clear the intrinsically transnational nature of all the major global challenges. In this context, the authors explore three potential key areas of development policies that are likely to become increasingly crucial over the coming years: the private-sector contribution to the achievement of the SDGs; climate finance; and prospects and policies for low-income countries and fragile states.

Nicola Bilotta è responsabile di ricerca presso lo IAI dove lavora su progetti di economia politica internazionale, economia digitale e “geofinance”.

Fabrizio Botti è responsabile di ricerca per l’area di economia e finanza all’interno del programma “Multilateralismo e governance globale” dell’Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) e Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow.