Sources of financing and funding for infrastructure development, such as grants, guarantees, and debt and equity instruments, including those offered by project preparation facilities.
The Global SME Finance Facility is a blended-finance partnership focused on helping to close the financing gap faced by SMEs in emerging markets. Catalyzing access to finance for SMEs, the facility has a goal of generating one million new jobs in the SME sector.
The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership with the objective of raising awareness and scaling-up attention to the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries.