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To allay concerns about money being poorly spent, microfinance institutions should reward SME owners who use loans to finance climate-change resilience and renewable-energy projects.
There are health-care companies that might bite, hedge funds looking for large-scale projects, and so-called social-impact bonds.
Although grants are a nice source of funding for demonstration projects and research, only a for-profit approach that attracts broader investment will ensure that this scheme catches on.
In recent years, local-level protests – opposing everything from poor working conditions to illegal logging, land grabs, and environmentally or socially damaging infrastructure projects – have proliferated.
This means that it will need to overhaul its state-owned firms and the financial sector so that resources can flow to the most productive investment projects.
Moreover, in recent months, the government has approved some large steel and energy projects, and more such approvals may come.
These funds could be structured to distribute risk among a variety of projects or sectors, which might make them more attractive to investors who avoid high-stakes venture financing.
This kind of funding would also enable much closer alignment between investors and innovative projects.
With Bangladesh unable to pick up the slack, life-saving projects like ours will collapse; the long-term resources we have developed, from the insectarium to new diagnostic devices, will have to be abandoned; and the developing world’s poorest communities will suffer.
Fuzzy, feel-good projects to foster human rights and good governance in an obscure region next-door must wait.
The World Health Organization estimates that 4,000 deaths could be linked to the disaster over 70 years, whereas the OECD projects a range of 9,000-33,000 deaths during this period.
But while America’s commitment to nuclear power was quickly reaffirmed by President Barack Obama, some European governments took the knee-jerk decision to freeze all new nuclear-energy projects immediately, and, in the case of Germany, not to extend the life of existing reactors.
This rule serves to curb inflationary demand pressure while preventing elected officials from squandering the country's riches on politically rewarding but economically wasteful projects.
Any government effort to sustain dying industries or to allocate investment by picking all sorts of "innovative" projects will be a recipe for economic disaster.
Projects must be judged by whether they contribute to peace and reconciliation, rather than on purely economic grounds.
Cooperation would also need to comprise much more than mere joint policy development, and should involve the practical pursuit of mutually beneficial, smaller-scale ad hoc projects.
One sure way of doing so is to use financial leverage, typically by selling land or using land as collateral to borrow large sums of money from often-obliging state-owned banks, to finance massive infrastructure projects, as Bo did in Chongqing.
As it stands, an estimated $400 million in private capital has been invested in around 108 such projects in the United States and around the world.
Of the 27 completed projects that have reported to date, only one has failed to achieve its target and pay a return to its investors.
Most of these countries have very small financial systems relative to the size of their economies, and, with small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), households, and infrastructure projects facing credit constraints, they certainly have ample room for sustainable market deepening.
These are, in a sense, pay-for-success projects, sometimes structured as social impact bonds –formal contracts that tie payments to actual results.
Private investors and philanthropic organizations finance the upfront costs of the pilot projects, and local or state governments (sometimes supplemented with federal money) pay the investors only if the project produces the promised results.
Though the pay-for-success model is still in its infancy, dozens of projects are now underway.
Pay-for-success projects mark a radical departure from traditional approaches to funding solutions to complex social challenges.
Lawmakers in both parties have teamed up to introduce a variety of bills that would encourage and fund pay-for-success projects.
Of course, though these changes open the way for philanthropic foundations and pension funds to become major investors in pay-for-success projects, success is not guaranteed.
A results-oriented pay-for-success approach, based on what we know works well in the private sector, provides an ideal opportunity to test bold and innovative solutions, learn from scores of competing projects about which work, and ramp up those that do.
But its ideology suggests far more ambitious projects, starting with war against nearby Shia populations, who, as apostates, must be slaughtered.
As access to international bank loans, bond flotations, and foreign direct investment is lost, infrastructure projects talked about in the past are now being shelved, threatening the political and economic stability of dozens of developing countries.
It is time for a concerted global effort to bring those projects on line.
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