General view of the Kutupalong Refugee Camp

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基础设施融资的新手段

Mar 13, 2018 Justin Yifu Lin , Håvard Halland, Yan Wang

发自北京——美国的立法者已经制定了一项新法案，该法案一旦颁布，就将创建一个新的开发融资机构来取代原有的海外私人投资公司（Overseas Private Investment Corporation）。新机构与其前身不同的地方在于能够进行股权投资，而这一改革反映出全球日益认识到股权已经成为了可持续发展融资的重要组成部分。

但美国以及其他地区在开发金融方面的这一转变纵使意义重大，却不能解决南半球不发达地区所面临的其中一项主要挑战：缺乏基础设施投资。对此我们可能需要一种全新的手段来弥补这一缺陷。

为实现联合国可持续发展目标，全球各大多边开发银行及其私营部门分支（开发融资机构）承诺在未来三年内将私营部门融资额增加35％。为了支持基础设施投资，各多边发展银行在实施其他重要措施之外还扩大了提供给私人投资者的风险缓释工具。但它们并未对基础设施资产进行足够投资，将投资重点放在新兴市场的中小型企业上。

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Justin Yifu Lin

Writing for PS since 2009
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Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, is Dean of the Institute for New Structural Economics and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Honorary Dean at the National School of Development, Peking University. His recent books include Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation and Beating the Odds: Jump-starting Developing Countries.

Håvard Halland

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Håvard Halland is a visiting scholar at the Stanford Global Projects Center (GPC) at Stanford University.

Yan Wang

Writing for PS since 2017
2 Commentaries

Yan Wang is a senior fellow at the Center for New Structural Economics, Peking University.

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Alexander Shapiro Mar 14, 2018

I think there is a further point that in many cases for equity investors perceived risk and actual risk of project are quite different. Investors are often experienced at estimating risks in their home geographies, and employ huge teams to do so. Conversely in a variety of developing countries they are less experienced, employ fewere people, the fact they are less able to be confident on project risks translates into risk aversion. I think there is a role for the world bank and other organisations not only to offer risk mitigation, but actually to help organisations accurately estimate risk in the first place.
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neil Robert Mar 13, 2018

In the past few years, I've heard this "double bottom line" only referred to as "triple"--financial, ecological, and social success. After all, environmental care should not be confused with social care
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