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How do public markets fit into the next era of development finance? PMC Chair Cameron Khosrowshahi sat down with Leslie Maasdorp, CEO of British International Investment, for a wide-ranging conversation exploring exactly that. Earlier this year, Leslie joined the PMC Roundtable, held on the margins of the World Bank Spring Meetings, for a session on local public capital markets development in Africa — examining what it will take for development finance institutions to expand

Time is running out on closing the sustainable finance gap. Thanks to accumulated trust and liquidity, public capital markets could offer the shortest route to mobilising private capital for investment in developing countries, writes PMC Chair Cameron Khowsrowshahi.

The United Kingdom (UK), partnering with the Government of the Philippines and others, is championing the use of public markets to mobilise development and climate finance at the scale needed to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).