Projects in Healthcare

Healthcare infrastructure projects in emerging markets often face the same challenge: the need is clear, the technical solution can be defined, but financing remains difficult. Export Credit Agencies can play an important role in closing this gap. ECAs are public institutions, or institutions acting on behalf of governments, that support national exports by providing loans, guarantees, insurance or other forms of official export-credit support. In a typical buyer-credit structure, a commercial bank finances the foreign buyer while the ECA covers part of the political and commercial repayment risk. This can make long-term financing available where conventional lending would otherwise be difficult or too expensive. Examples include SACE in Italy, UKEF in the United Kingdom, Bpifrance Assurance Export in France, Euler Hermes in Germany, US EXIM , NEXI and JBIC in Japan, and K-SURE and KEXIM in South Korea. The OECD maintains the official list of Export Credit Agencies involve...