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Investment Financing in the Wake of the Crisis: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks

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  • Chelsky, Jeff

    (World Bank)

  • Morel, Claire

    (World Bank)

  • Kabir, Mabruk

    (World Bank)

Abstract

Sustained growth in emerging markets and developing economies requires long-term, reliable capital to finance productive investment, including in basic infrastructure. However, the availability and composition of long-term financing is constrained, partly due to fragile market conditions and cyclical weaknesses in parts of the global economy, as well as longer-term trends. This has had a particularly negative impact on developing economies that do not have reliable access to international bond markets and on sectors that have traditionally relied on bank lending (such as infrastructure). At the same time, fiscal space has been eroded by the crisis, and the direct lending capacity of multilateral development banks remains constrained. This heightens the importance of the catalytic role of the official sector in mobilizing longterm financing from the private sector by drawing on its ability to reduce and share risk. This note explores some of the ways in which MDBs are equipped to serve this purpose.

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  • Chelsky, Jeff & Morel, Claire & Kabir, Mabruk, 2013. "Investment Financing in the Wake of the Crisis: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks," World Bank - Economic Premise, The World Bank, issue 121, pages 1-5, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:prmecp:ep121
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    1. Philip R Lane, 2014. "External Funding and Long-term Investment," RBA Annual Conference Volume (Discontinued), in: Alexandra Heath & Matthew Read (ed.),Financial Flows and Infrastructure Financing, Reserve Bank of Australia.
    2. Taguchi, Hiroyuki, 2021. "Financial additionality: role of multilateral development banks in private participation in infrastructure projects," MPRA Paper 108936, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Helmut Reisen, 2015. "Will the AIIB and the NDB Help Reform Multilateral Development Banking?," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 6(3), pages 297-304, September.
    4. Chiara Broccolini & Giulia Lotti & Alessandro Maffioli & Andrea F Presbitero & Rodolfo Stucchi, 2021. "Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 35(2), pages 521-543.
    5. Avellán, Leopoldo & Galindo, Arturo J. & Lotti, Giulia & Rodríguez, Juan Pablo, 2024. "Bridging the gap: Mobilization of multilateral Development Banks in Infrastructure," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
    6. Gurara, Daniel & Presbitero, Andrea & Sarmiento, Miguel, 2020. "Borrowing costs and the role of multilateral development banks: Evidence from cross-border syndicated bank lending," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    7. Clifton, Judith & Díaz Fuentes, Daniel & Gómez, Ana Lara, 2017. "The European Investment Bank: a new database (1958-2012)," MPRA Paper 78173, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Inderst, Georg & Stewart, Fiona, 2014. "Institutional Investment in Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies," MPRA Paper 62522, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Hiroyuki Taguchi & Kota Yasumura, 2021. "Financial Additionality of Multilateral Development Banks in Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(15), pages 1-15, July.

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    JEL classification:

    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

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