Blended Finance: Unlocking Commercial Finance forSustainable Development

Here is my piece on Blended Finance, published in Artha, the IIM Calcutta finance journal. With investment needs to move to a green economy exceeding $1 trillion a year by 2030, governments and international agencies will find it challenging to fund this. Thus private and public finance will need to join hands. Blended finance blends concessional and market-based finance to fund social and climate needs. I explore the role of blended finance in this article.