Development banks are banks, which development assistance and usually offer needy states bundle in the form of credits. The most well-known is the group of World Banks.

In addition there are different regional (multilateral) development banks:

• European bank for reconstruction and development (Eastern Europe bank) (EBRD)
• European Investitionsbank (EIB)
• African development bank (AfDB)
• Inter+American development bank (IADB)
• Asiatic development bank (ADB)
• Caribbean development bank (CDB)
• Islamic development bank

Beside these regional (multilateral) development banks there is however still another number of national development banks, in Germany for example the kreditanstalt fuer wiederaufbau (KfW).

Related links

• Group of World Banks and regional development banks (overview of the German Federal Department of Finance)

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• African Development Bank (AfDB)
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• Asian Development Bank
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development finance institution, promotes economic and social progress by fighting poverty in Asia and the ...


• Development Bank of Southern Africa
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• Inter-American Development Bank
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• Islamic Development Bank
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