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Blog Post
December 09, 2022
With climate change already affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world, the need for a coordinated global response has never been more urgent. But to mobilize the huge sums required to finance the investments we need to ensure a climate-resilient future, the world mus...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
The “billions to trillions” vision advanced the notion that some significant part of official development assistance (ODA) should be used to catalyze additional finance from other public and private sources. Seven years later, the expectations that blended finance would expand sharply to help narrow...
Blog Post
February 09, 2022
Much has been written about yawning infrastructure finance gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, and there is a growing recognition that these gaps have widened during the pandemic. Since the “billions to trillions” vision was launched in 2015, many have stressed that the private sector must be a significant ...
POLICY PAPERS
February 09, 2022
Many stress the critical role of the private sector in filling yawning sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) infrastructure finance gaps, only widened by the pandemic. Our paper looks in detail at financially closed (construction-ready) transactions with private participation in SSA from 2007-2020. Despite the “...
Blog Post
February 07, 2022
For those who care about the mobilization of private finance for development, channeling a much larger volume and share of the trillions of dollars of global institutional investment, including from pension funds, into SDG-related investment in emerging markets might be described as the holy grail. ...