- Guarantees, subsidies, or paying for success? Choosing the right instrument to catalyze private investment in developing countries0.49 MB
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 that lower an investment’s risk (such as credit guarantees) or those that lower the costs of various inputs (such as concessional loans, which subsidise borrowing).
Written by Owen Barder and Theodore Talbot, Center for Global Development
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