Maximizing concessional resources with guarantees—a perspective on sovereigns and sub-nationals

Photo: Debbie Hildreth Pisarcik | Flickr Creative Commons Several years ago, after almost two decades at various investment banks, I joined the World Bank’s Financial Solutions team. I had always…

Sebnem Erol Madan |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Competitiveness

Managing PPP risks with a new guide on guarantees

Just two years ago, Ghana was experiencing unstable commodity prices and a deteriorating macroeconomic situation. Yet, through a unique combination of World Bank guarantees nearly $8 billion in…

Victoria Rigby Delmon, Jenny Chao |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Competitiveness

I’ll take my coffee green, no cream, no sugar

Photo credit: Katie O’Gara Ethiopia, the single largest African coffee producer and the world’s fifth largest, is commonly considered to be the birthplace of coffee.  It’s hardly a surprise that…

Ellysar Baroudy, Dan Radack |
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Environment, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

Renewables, solar, and large size projects trending in new data on private participation in infrastructure

Translations available in Chinese and Spanish. Many of you are already familiar with the PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) Group’s Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Database. As a…

Clive Harris, Jenny Chao |
Energy, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

Malnutrition denies children opportunity and stunts economic development

Nearly 50 years ago, books such as Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into The Poverty Of Nations, by the Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, offered a dire prediction of famine and poverty…

Axel van Trotsenburg |
Health, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Education, Poverty