strategy

Improving access to development capital

Synonyms:
Relieving scarcity of start-up funds
Easing outside capital access
Obtaining capital access means
Securing necessary capital access
Demonstrating outside capital investment
Claim:
1. The concern for poor countries is not so much how to manage the dislocations caused by the volatility of short-term capital flows, but rather how to attract capital, especially long-term finance, to support faster and sustained growth.

2. The phenomenal surge in capital flows in the past decade has fuelled the belief that the development financing needs of developing countries would be met by the more or less normal functioning of the market. However, the reality is that there is a high concentration of FDI flows in middle-income countries in South-East Asia and Latin America, while the low-income countries on the whole have been bypassed.

3. Combined with a low level of domestic resource mobilization resulting from low-incomes, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are the most capital-scarce regions of the world. They are also the least integrated into world financial markets and heavily dependent on falling aid flows.

Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 1: No PovertyGOAL 2: Zero HungerGOAL 3: Good Health and Well-beingGOAL 4: Quality EducationGOAL 5: Gender EqualityGOAL 6: Clean Water and SanitationGOAL 7: Affordable and Clean EnergyGOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthGOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureGOAL 10: Reduced InequalityGOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionGOAL 13: Climate ActionGOAL 14: Life Below WaterGOAL 15: Life on LandGOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong InstitutionsGOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal