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New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South

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Newly established multilateral development banks promote green finance and support a green transition in the global South. This article examines the new multilateral development banks using a dynamic view and documents the projects and lending preferences of New Development Bank (NDB) in Brazil and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Turkey. While AIIB and NDB have made it easier for global South actors to access infrastructural investment funding and are committed to expanding green lending, their commitment rests on the use of country systems and national financial intermediaries. This results in extending loans for projects with significant risk and ignoring the broader connections of the projects to the environmentally hazardous strategies of capital accumulation. Despite their strong green discourse, their design and the way their mandates have been interpreted render new multilateral development banks prone to business as usual.

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  • Ali Rıza Güngen, 2023. "New Multilateral Development Banks and Green Lending: Approaching Scalar Complexities in the Global South," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 54(2), pages 251-279, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:54:y:2023:i:2:p:251-279
    DOI: 10.1111/dech.12755
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