Supporting Local Bond Market Development : How Can Development Banks Foster Domestic Capital Markets?

Domestic capital markets are a vital source of stable, sustainable finance, and underpin a private sector associated with employment and economic growth. Yet capital markets are underdeveloped across the emerging-market world, leading to illiquidit...

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Main Authors: Molders, Florian, Pace, Jordan Townswick
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/883451467994632798/Supporting-local-bond-market-development-how-can-development-banks-foster-domestic-capital-markets
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30335
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Summary:Domestic capital markets are a vital source of stable, sustainable finance, and underpin a private sector associated with employment and economic growth. Yet capital markets are underdeveloped across the emerging-market world, leading to illiquidity, elevated transaction costs, and other inefficiencies. Development banks can help foster stronger capital markets through local bond issuances, partial credit guarantees, anchor investments, risk sharing, and securitization assistance.