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From unbankable to investable: How risk is being repriced across Asia

At the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, leaders from finance and investment examine how development finance is changing. As governments, nonprofits and private investors take on new roles, the debate is shifting to how risk in frontier and emerging markets can be reassessed — and what it will take to unlock capital at scale.

From unbankable to investable: How risk is being repriced across Asia

TL;DR

  • The Asian Development Bank's annual meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, addressed changes in development finance.
  • The roles of governments, nonprofits, and private investors in development finance are evolving.
  • A central debate is how to reassess risk in frontier and emerging markets.
  • The goal is to determine how to unlock capital at scale.