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

_Departmental Papers, May 14, 2021_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Hilary Devine, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken
- Published: May 14, 2021
- Series: Departmental Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513571560.087

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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.

### Publication and authorship
- Authors: Hilary Devine, Hoda Selim, Preya Sharma, Ludger Wocken
- Publication date: May 14, 2021
- Series: Departmental Paper No 2021/011
- Issue: 011
- Volume: 2021
- Pages: 161
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513571560.087
- Stock No: PFDWTTOBEA
- ISBN: 9781513571560
- ISSN: 2616-5333

### Subject areas and keywords
- 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

*Content based on the IMF departmental paper "Private Finance for Development: Wishful Thinking or Thinking Out of the Box?" (May 14, 2021).*

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