Global Conference 2019

DevTech: Meeting SDGs through Disruptive Technologies (Invite only)

Given the demographic destinies shaping global aggregate demand and productivity, emerging and frontier markets offer the greatest promise to become sustainable global growth drivers. Creating jobs and bridging capital gaps require new ways to maximize finance that harness new technologies to pioneer innovative solutions for development challenges in those countries. Debt overhang of many developing economies leads to the market failure of underinvestment in critical technologies that can spur growth. How can project finance structures overcome those gaps focusing on critical development needs in water, food, energy, and health technologies and their adaption and diffusion in new growth economies?