Creativity around infrastructure financing not exhausted yet: AIIB
Singapore
WHY isn't more private capital going into infrastructure projects? One reason is because governments are choosing to fund the most bankable projects themselves, leaving riskier, less palatable projects to private investors, Pang Yee Ean, director-general (investments) of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said.
At a panel forum hosted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Surbana Jurong on Monday, he said: "Strangely but as a natural phenomenon, the governments always put the bankable projects to be financed by themselves. And then they come running to us and say, 'How about those non-bankable projects? Can you get the private sector to finance?'
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