Innovative Financing

Financial Innovations for Freshwater Revitilization: Transboundary Project Finance in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority

4 Nov 2009

To examine the State Revolving Fund (SRF) model and its potential applications in the Middle East, the Milken Institute held a Financial Innovations Lab in November 2008 in Jerusalem. More than forty industry professionals, scientists...

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Biodiversity Conservation in Israel

16 Jul 2012

The time has come for Israel to join the ranks of both developed and emerging nations around the world that have adopted biodiversity financing programs. The programs now in place include watershed and wetland protection, water services...

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Scaling Enterprise Finance: The Future of Biofuels

16 Apr 2010

America is finally coming to grips with the need to minimize its dependence on imported oil. Faced with a host of geopolitical risks and the looming threat of climate change, policymakers are taking a hard look at ways to diversify the...

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Turning Plants Into Products: Delivering on the Potential of Industrial Biotechnology

1 Apr 2011

As interest in sustainability grows in the United States and around the world, there is a push by policymakers and the industrial biotechnology industry to find replacements for petroleum. This is the case not only in transportation...

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Unleashing the Power of the Bio-Economy

1 Feb 2013

In 2012, the United States was poised to begin converting 20 percent of petrochemical consumption to bio-based products, creating jobs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and capturing a large share of the global renewable chemicals market...

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Capital Deployment: The Four Things We Need to Do This Decade to Get Climate Right

7 Dec 2021

The first few weeks of November 2021 have been (hopefully) consequential for the future of climate change. COP26 brought a flurry of pledges and commitments. More than $130 trillion in financial assets have been pledged to align with the...

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Dan Carol

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance

Dan Carol is a senior director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.

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Ghana’s Daakye Bond Program: An African Securitization Case Study

22 Nov 2021

In Akan, the most widely spoken language in Ghana, daakye means future. It is an apt name, therefore, for the Daakye bond program, which invests in Ghana’s future leaders through securitizing future government tax flows. Established in 2020...

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John Schellhase and Haris Mohsin

22 Nov 2021

Power of Ideas

How Technological Innovation Will Drive a More Inclusive Economy

12 Nov 2021

The world has changed in incalculable ways in the past two years. Two phenomena have been especially notable to us at Franklin Templeton: Technological innovation has accelerated exponentially, and there has been an increased awareness of...

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Jenny Johnson

President & CEO, Franklin Templeton

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Increasing Access to Capital in the Rio Grande Valley

1 Jun 2021

In 2011, the Rio Grande Valley of Texas was one of the poorest regions in the United States. There was a lack of infrastructure and limited access to traditional lenders. At the same time, institutional investors were struggling to find new...

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Digitalization and the Future of Asset Management

12 Apr 2021

'Digitalization and the Future of Asset Management' is a summary report of a webinar that the Milken Institute hosted on March 4, 2021. The public plenary discussed how technology continues to transform the asset management industry across...

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Lauryn Poyser and Amos Garcia

12 Apr 2021

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