The education lending policy of the European investment bank

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the latest Education Lending Policy (ELP) of the European Investment Bank (EIB), adopted by the Board of Governors in 2008. It is structured in two parts. The first briefly presents the EIB in general and the evolution of its education lending portfolio in particular. This sets the stage for the second part of the article, which reproduces the Bank's new ELP - only the second such formal education sector policy statement adopted by the institution to date. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.