Private Investment

CGD and the Centre for Finance and Development are teaming up to bring together international finance practitioners who are thinking about how to marry public and private international financing for development (so-called blended finance) and researchers who are rethinking government strat...

Since the 2015 financing for development agreement, donor governments and their development finance institutions have all been singing from the same hymn sheet: we must do more to mobilize private investment. Here I will argue that setting leverage targets in isolation might not get us what we want:...

Public-Private Partnership models continue to proliferate, backed by multilateral development banks old and new. But the volume of PPPs in developing countries has stagnated since the global financial crisis, and they won’t deliver unless they are designed and implemented well. ...