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  "title": "Private Finance for Development: Wishful Thinking or Thinking Out of the Box?",
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      "content": "- The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources.\n- 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."
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      "content": "- Authors: Hilary Devine, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken\n- Publication date: May 14, 2021\n- Series: Departmental Paper No 2021/011\n- Issue: 011\n- Volume: 2021\n- Pages: 161\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513571560.087\n- Stock No: PFDWTTOBEA\n- ISBN: 9781513571560\n- ISSN: 2616-5333"
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      "content": "- Subject: Development, Expenditure, Income, Infrastructure, National accounts, Private investment, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)\n- 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\n\nContent based on the IMF departmental paper \"Private Finance for Development: Wishful Thinking or Thinking Out of the Box?\" (May 14, 2021).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Pfdwttobea\n  - Pfdwttobea (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Pfdwttobea (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/departmental-papers-policy-papers/issues/2021/05/14/private-finance-for-development-50157"
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    "Published: May 14, 2021",
    "Series: Departmental Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513571560.087",
    "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.",
    "Authors: Hilary Devine, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken",
    "Publication date: May 14, 2021",
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    "Stock No: PFDWTTOBEA",
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    "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",
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