Spring Meetings

Description:The Knowledge Café will discuss major investment trends, bringing together private sector, government, and DFI representatives to share insights. Potential discussion topics include: 1.Breaking Barriers: Scaling Private Investment in Infrastructure – Examining private capital mobilization across EMDE markets to identify top performers and discuss best practices including links direct and indirect employment generation. 2.The Next Frontier: Private Capital in Emerging Sectors – Exploring investment trends in sectors such as battery storage, hydrogen, and e-mobility across developed and emerging markets and what they mean for labor markets and skills. 3.Unlocking Blended Finance Potential – Comparing mobilization ratios across investment vehicles and risk mitigation strategies to determine the most effective blended financing approaches. 4.Invest, Recycle, Repeat: Leveraging Secondary Markets – Exploring capital flows from primary to secondary markets to discuss the “Originate-to-Distribute” model. 5.Risk, Reward, and Reality: Examining investors’ preferred risk strategies vs investment performance to shape optimal investment profiles in EMDEs. *Watch Event|https://meetingslogin.worldbank.org/en/asmeeting/event-detail/ems1852266*