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Research on Infrastructure in Developing Economies
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  • Infrastructure financing

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Sources of Finance

Sources of Finance & Challenges to Investment

Maps private financing for sustainable infrastructure in lower-income countries and the advantages public financial institutions have in mobilising private capital.

Project ID: MPF 1

Lead: ODI Global, SOAS

Workstream: WS1: Sources of finance and challenges to investment

At a glance

Region Global LMICs

Duration March 2026 – March 2027

  • Private sustainable infrastructure financing in LMICs

  • Advantages of public financial institutions

  • Efficiency of international public climate funds

What does the landscape of financial flows for sustainable economic infrastructure into lower-income countries look like?

Tags

  • Infrastructure financing

  • Private capital

Research activities

  • Landscape of private sustainable infrastructure finance

  • Comparative advantages of public financial institutions

  • Efficiency of international climate funds

  • Scaling aggregators and intermediaries

Planned research outputs

  • Working papers & peer-reviewed publication

  • Policy briefs & final report

  • Blog posts

  • Dissemination events

Relevance & uptake

Advice to governments and operators · publications for academia

Implemented by

ODI Global, SOAS

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Conference participation [tbc]