A weaker dollar and geopolitical trends makes EMDE investments look more attractive. odi.org/en/insights/...

As private debt in the US looks increasingly risky, private debt in EMDEs looks less risky. Time to rebalance portfolios? odi.org/en/insights/...

Ugo Panniza provides useful economic underpinnings for how to use blended finance, and explains why mobilization ratios are not a good performance metric cepr.org/voxeu/column...

My recent paper suggests ways that IFC and other DFis can take a more proactive approach to industry and market development: My recent paper suggests ways that IFC could play a more active role in industry and market development: odi.org/en/publicati...

Charles Kenny correctly diagnoses the timidity of WBG approaches to industry development. The World Bank Group and Industrial Strategy url:https://www.cgdev.org/blog/world-bank-group-and-industrial-strategy

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Good analysis of how to make guarantees more useful in mobilizing private capital into EMDEs

Success of blended finance should be measured by capital market development, not leverage ratios. www.devex.com/news/more-bl...

DFIs should focus more on the dynamics of market change than static market competition. Drawing on insights from modern theories of economic growth, the role of DFIs changes from financing today's investible opportunities to creating tomorrow's investible opportunities. odi.org/en/publicati...

BII should leverage its balance sheet, as Sam Attridge argues url:https://www.cgdev.org/publication/biis-problem-isnt-ambition-its-capital-and-heres-how-fix-it?mkt_tok=Njg1LUtCTC03NjUAAAGgC1OMjdcF6e4Me5TTUiRhNUmrjJsENxJ4E_-h1A0NXYDtQk_SzjdLaqIQO7sW3JMQA_VzVFl-KRLLotQj_FPpcCNv4IDFnraaK0eevlndcBO7U1Uw

Useful analysis of why US pension funds invest less than 1% of their funds in Africa. Lack of familiarity, elevated risk perceptions, and lack of high return assets deter bigger allocations. cesa.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/news/cesa-is...

How can DFIs mobilize private capital at scale? My new report (with Jorge Alarcon) summarizes our research for BII on tools and structures that DFIs can deploy to originate, pool, share and de-risk assets for private investors. www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

Productive large firms are key to job creation, exports and productivity growth in EMDEs. In high income countries, large firms can access capital markets to finance their growth - DFIs need to help them do so in EMDEs too. Useful report from BII on how to do so. www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

Great insights from Dirk on how thinking about growth, investment , trade and DFIs has evolved , with help from ODI Global experts like Dirk odi.org/en/insights/...

Great to see IFC mobilize $500m of private capital by warehousing and securitizing loans. An important addition to the mobilization toolkit. Hopefully this can be expanded in future tranches to include loans from other DFIs.

Great explanation of why large, formal firms are needed to drive increased productivity, exports and job creation. www.africanistperspective.com/p/there-will...

Good observations on what comes next for development cooperation. url:https://www.cgdev.org/publication/end-development-cooperation?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=cgd_email&utm_campaign=weekly_20250722

Impact investors, like DFIs and MDBs, realize that we need to move from bespoke transactions to market making and scalable product development, if we are to move capital to where it is needed at the scale needed. impactalpha.com/calvert-impa...

In today's resource constrained environment, here are five low cost, high impact actions that European governments can take now to support increased private capital flows to low and middle income countries. odi.org/en/insights/...

Great set of articles on the future role of DFIs. www.proparco.fr/en/ressource...

Blended finance can expand the reach of private finance, but can also distort markets if overused. But tools are emerging to calibrate how much concessionality to provide. I identify four promising approaches in my latest piece for ImpactAlpha. impactalpha.com/blended-fina...

I'll be presenting our findings, with Nerea Craviotto, on how DFIs can create platforms and ventures which scale up their impact on 6 June. Register at the link below. odi.org/en/events/df...

That’s a wrap on another semester of my sustainable finance and impact investing course at #SAIS. Thanks to our stellar guest speakers Sam Duncan, Mike Lubrano, Eric Rice, Diane Damskey, James Purcell, Kusi Hornberger, Vikram Widge, Sam Power, Bianca Getzel, Wasim Tahir, Michelle Lee, Joy Ding.

Congratulations to #ODIGlobal on launching the Center for Private Finance for Development today. Looking forward to contributing to this important research agenda.

Glad to be joining #ODIGlobal events at the Spring Meetings. Critical to keep the focus on practical steps to advance sustainable development.

Development finance institutions can spur more socially beneficial investment by actively founding new commercial enterprises. @hanspeterlankes.bsky.social & @britishintinv.bsky.social's Leslie Maasdorp share key findings from our research in a new piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social.

I agree with Charles Kenny that DFIs should leverage their balance sheets better, but not that they should be cash cows for aid programs. DFIs should use their profits to grow their business and take more risk, not pay dividends.

Good agenda from new CEO Leslie Maasdorp for scaling up private capital mobilization at BII www.devex.com/news/a-labor...

DFIs can play a key role in originating, de-risking and sharing EMDE assets with private investors. impactalpha.com/climate-and-...

MDB and DFI support for private sector development is limited by the availability of firms and projects to invest in. But what if DFIs took the lead in creating new ventures and platforms to develop investible projects? 12 BII and Norfund cases show the potential. odi.org/en/publicati...

$1 trillion pa of private finance needed to support development and climate investments in EMDEs, but private capital flows have been falling since FfD3. www.brookings.edu/articles/fou...

Good agenda for DFIs to scale up mobilization. Glad to be working with BII to study various mobilization approaches.

Good analysis of where we go from here on the much derided Billions to Trillions agenda. url:https://www.cgdev.org/blog/mdb-role-billions-trillions-were-we-delusional?utm_campaign=event_mdb_dfi_market_impact&utm_medium=cgd_email&utm_source=event_email

The assault on USAID is a wake-up call for the rest of the world | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/ed29f87a-91c2-49a0-a69b-942821bd178b

Interested in impact investing, sustainable investing, climate finance, social finance, community development finance, welcome to the conversation? Check out the group of leaders and organizations in this #impinv starter pack. #socfin #econdev #ESG go.bsky.app/P57DXzQ

Great list of who to follow on impact investing.

Hana Freymiller and I explain how US CDFIs and MDFIs can tap into impact capital to leverage government funding for poverty reduction and inclusion, and inclusive climate change investments - but they need to up their game on impact measurement and management. www.westpotomaccap.com/insights/dat...

If we are to make progress, investors need to go beyond reporting on SDG alignment and assess SDG contribution - my latest piece for Impact Alpha: impactalpha.com/how-investor...

Useful private sector perspective on what governments, MDBs and DFIs can do to expand the pipeline of bankable projects - a key bottleneck in scaling up climate and development finance. ir.citi.com/gps/5nUzEORh...

Shareholders must recapitalize MDBs (and their concessional windows) to enable them to step up their financing of climate change investments. odi.org/en/insights/...

Good to discuss investor contribution to the SDGs with Net Purpose and its clients today. Important to be transparent and data driven to ensure credibility and avoid rainbow washing.

Join me on tomorrow’s Net Purpose webinar ‘How to Measure the Contribution of your Investments to the SDGs’. You can sign up through this link here: lnkd.in/eXJ338R5

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