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Financing infrastructure that outlives you

Project finance director, energy and infrastructure. Continental Europe. Episode in production.

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  • Policy

Editorial outline

A conversation on long-dated capital: why it is scarce for African infrastructure, what an institutional committee actually needs to see, and how the exit question outweighs the return question.

Lines of inquiry

  1. 01

    Why perceived inconvertibility ends more mandates than project economics do.

  2. 02

    When blended finance works, and when it merely lowers an average cost.

  3. 03

    The role local pension capital could play in long-dated funding.

  4. 04

    How regulatory predictability is priced even when it is never written down.

  5. 05

    What credible ring-fencing and independent reporting would require of a diaspora bond.

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Transcript

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