Better Finance Better World: Consultative paper of the Blended Finance Taskforce

Year: 2018

Content-Type: Report

Description: The Blended Finance Taskforce was launched in 2017 as an initiative of the Business & Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC). It was set up to look at how “blended finance” – the use of development funds to mobilize additional private finance for investment in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – can be deployed more effectively. Bringing together leaders from finance, business, development and policy, the Taskforce’s aims are twofold: (1) to lay out the economic opportunity inherent in the use of blended finance, particularly for sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets; and (2) develop an action plan to drive the system-change required to rapidly scale the blended finance market, in order to deliver this opportunity. This report will explain what blended finance actually means, how investors can use it to improve the risk/return profile of investments, why the market needs to scale up rapidly, and how it can be done.

Pages: 120 pages

Author: Business & Sustainable Development Commission (Blended Finance Taskforce)

Publisher: Business & Sustainable Development Commission (Blended Finance Taskforce)

Categories: Finance, Infrastructures, Investments, Private Sector, SDGs

Tags: Blended Finance, Markets, Private Finance, SDGs, UN