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Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Report
Diagnosing how the sovereign ceiling functions as a simplifying shortcut that can obscure meaningful differences across borrowers, and proposing an alternative credit rating approach based on disaggregating sovereign risk into specific transmission channels.
Mining, Metals and Resource-based Development
This chapter outlines how implementing shared-use mining–related infrastructure may contribute to the post-2015 agenda, by going through the relevant SDGs.
Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will only be achieved if the population has access to basic services, such as access to water, power, transport, and telecommunications. However, in many developing countries there is a lack of infrastructure to guarantee these services and there are insufficient public funds to finance growing needs. In resource-rich countries, the mining sector can play a key role in increasing access to infrastructure. Mining-related infrastructure is often developed to serve the exclusive need of the investors. However, if it is shared and developed to serve broader needs and uses of the host economy, it could fill some of the infrastructure funding gap. In Chapter 13 of the monograph Mining and Sustainable Development: Current Issues, Perrine Toledano and Nicolas Maennling outline how implementing shared use of mining-related infrastructure may contribute to achieving the SDGs.
