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Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instrument to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries - Working Paper 402
Owen Barder
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Theodore Talbot
May 05, 2015
Governments, donors, and public sector agencies are seeking productive ways to ‘crowd in’ private sector involvement and capital to tackle international development challenges. The financial instruments that are used to create incentives for private sector involvement are typically those...
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A Clarion Call to Philanthropists: Energy Access Is Development
Todd Moss
April 21, 2015
Energy access is getting a lot of attention lately from the development community. The ONE Campaign has been pushing for aggressive action to fight energy poverty. President Obama launched Power Africa in June 2013 as his signature development initiative of the second term (and t...
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“Only Private-Sector Investment Can End Extreme Poverty” — Raj Shah Tells CGD
Rajesh Mirchandani
February 12, 2015
USAID Administrator Raj Shah has called for “massive private and commercial-sector investment” in development as imperative to ending extreme poverty. 
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Should Sovereign Wealth Funds Finance Domestic Investment?
Alan Gelb
November 25, 2014
Countries have traditionally invested their sovereign wealth in securities of major markets able to provide dependable returns and macroeconomic stability, but some are now investing more sovereign wealth domestically because of diminished returns in major markets and new investment opportunities at...