Conversations / No. 04
Financing infrastructure that outlives you
Project finance director, energy and infrastructure. Continental Europe. Episode in production.
- Capital
- 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
- 01
Why perceived inconvertibility ends more mandates than project economics do.
- 02
When blended finance works, and when it merely lowers an average cost.
- 03
The role local pension capital could play in long-dated funding.
- 04
How regulatory predictability is priced even when it is never written down.
- 05
What credible ring-fencing and independent reporting would require of a diaspora bond.
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