Report On ‘Resource Financed Infrastructure’ Featured on World Bank Blog

A recent World Bank Blog post, co-authored by John Beardsworth and James Schmidt, examines “Resource Financed Infrastructure: A Discussion on a New Form of Infrastructure Financing,” a report that provides an analytical discussion of “resource financed infrastructure” transactions. RFI is a new finance model in which a government pledges its future revenues from a resource development project to repay a loan used to fund construction of infrastructure. The focus of the report is a study written by Beardsworth and Schmidt, who collaborated with The World Bank and internationally reputed economists and policymakers.

Read more in the World Bank blog post and the firm’s press release.