Financing the blue economy in small states /

It offers small island and coastal developing states, and the regions in which they are located — primarily the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans — a unique and untapped opportunity to break their dependence on a narrow range of goods and services, predominantly tourism, fisheries and agriculture, and to expand into new blue growth sectors, including marine biotechnology, deep seabed mining (DS [...] Current Sources of Blue Financing established the Blue Growth Initiative, catalyzing policy development, investment and innovation, and supporting several Three trends are evident in financing the blue economy in small blue economy sectors, including aquaculture, capture fisheries, states: there is significant financing and investment in several seafood systems and the promotion of ecosystem servi [...] Bond sales, facilitated by multilateral institutions including the World Bank and the African Development Bank, will fund the implementation of a fisheries management plan 5 See Mauritius Declaration and Mauritius Strategy for the Further to develop the Seychelles’ semi-industrial and artisanal fisheries Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Deve [...] With experts from academia, national agencies, international institutions and the private sector, the Global Economy Program supports research in the following areas: management of severe sovereign debt crises; central banking and international financial regulation; China’s role in the global economy; governance and policies of the Bretton Woods institutions; the Group of Twenty; global, plurilate [...] Recognition of the services and resources provided by oceans has accelerated in recent years, spurred by the opportunities and challenges posed by a rapidly growing global population, increasing global demand for food and energy, are vast, offering opportunities for growth and markets, the Financial Stability Board recently advances in technology, and changes in patterns of global trade and human