Assessing the use of ‘de-risking’ in financing African infrastructure

Danny Cassimon and George Mavrotas ()
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George Mavrotas: University of Antwerp, Belgium

Development Finance Agenda, 2024, vol. 9, issue 5, 6-8

Abstract: In an earlier contribution (Cassimon & Mavrotas, 2023), we provided a primer on the overarching concept of ‘de-risking’, referring on the one hand to interventions by national and/or international public actors to mitigate or transfer the risks of development-focused investments for private investors, either directly or indirectly, in order to crowd the latter in; on the other hand, it can also refer to private agent behaviour to withdraw from particular activities, because they are deemed (too) risky, often as response to (new) public sector interventions, with direct or indirect, and sometimes unintended, negative development consequences. In this follow-up contribution, we have zoomed in a bit more on the first type of de-risking, applying it more concretely to its potential role in financing African (energy) infrastructure projects.

Date: 2024
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