Blended Knowledge by GuarantCo
This podcast series focuses on topics that are critical to help build local capital markets in Africa and Asia, with the aim to create a significant impact on people’s lives through innovative, long-term local currency credit solutions to support infrastructure projects.
Episodes
Fixing the Grid: How Women Are Making Pakistan’s Energy Safer for All
The electrical grid in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, faces many challenges. Due to rapid, unplanned urban growth, widespread poverty and the system of overhead cables, people regularly steal power from the grid and electrocutions are common.
#16 Partnering with financiers to help close the infrastructure funding gap
The infrastructure funding gap in emerging markets is huge, estimated annually to be up to $107.5 billion in Africa and $136 billion in Asia (excluding India). To meet that demand, banks and institutional investors are fundamental - that’s why they are the primary beneficiaries of GuarantCo’s credit solutions.
#15 Mobilising capital for ESG projects through certified green bonds
Green bonds are one of the most attractive investment vehicles when it comes to sustainability, accounting for 54 percent of total sustainable issuances. So what makes them so effective, and why are they so suited for mobilising capital for environmental projects at scale?
#5 Grant funding to Acre Impact Capital
10 minutes
#4 Building Partnerships
26 minutes
#3 InfraCredit Nigeria
29 minutes
#2 Local Currency Financing
This episode explores how enabling local currency credit solutions addresses the infrastructure financing gap.
25 minutes
#1 Blended Finance
This episode explores how blended finance can support the development of local capital markets in lower income countries.
29 minutes