Guidance Note on Diversification of Financial Instruments for Infrastructure and SMEs

This Guidance note provides a set of selected voluntary policy recommendations that seek to help governments in tackling challenges related to mobilising private financing for infrastructure and SMEs, in particular from institutional investors and capital markets and diversifying financial instruments with special attention to equity financing. The challenges being country specific, the recommendations are intended to serve as guidance to country authorities in their effort to cope with their specific circumstances, including targeting particular type of investors. The recommendations are presented in a way to provide high-level recommendations to operationalise policies that foster investment in infrastructure and to help further develop infrastructure as an asset class.

Publication Date: 09.2016