What role can the U.K. Department for International Development play in cooperation with business and civil society to test innovations and bring them to scale?
British Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening addressed the issue at an event organized by Devex Impact at DfID’s headquarters in London.
WATCH: Greening: Engaging the private sector
Her response was: “[By] helping them to simply get the lifeblood that enables them to grow, which is finance.”
DfID is working to help build up capital markets in developing countries and improve business environments that allows companies — especially local ones — to access the resources they need to scale, Greening said.
WATCH: A new development model for DfID
This is the last of a three-part series of videos from Devex Impact’s conversation with the British development minister.
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Adva Saldinger@AdvaSal
Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.
