Departmental Papers

Private Finance for Development: Wishful Thinking or Thinking Out of the Box?

By Hilary Devine, Adrian Peralta Alva, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken, Luc Eyraud

May 14, 2021

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Hilary Devine, Adrian Peralta Alva, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken, and Luc Eyraud. Private Finance for Development: Wishful Thinking or Thinking Out of the Box?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 7, 2024

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Summary

The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources. To alleviate this tension and promote a strong and job-rich recovery from the crisis, Africa needs to mobilize more financing from and to the private sector.

Subject: Development, Expenditure, Income, Infrastructure, National accounts, Private investment, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Development Finance, Finance flow, Global, Income, Infrastructure, Investment risk, Middle East, Participation reform, Private investment, Public funds, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Sub-Saharan Africa, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Targeted government incentive

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    161

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Departmental Paper No 2021/011

  • Stock No:

    PFDWTTOBEA

  • ISBN:

    9781513571560

  • ISSN:

    2616-5333