Ben is of course right - #WallStreetConsensus is a development paradigm invented for the Global South, but could easily travel up North to satisfy the portfolio glut's hunger for infrastructure assets.
https://twitter.com/BJMbraun/status/1381649835930042369
'give us infrastructure assets!' clamour institutional investors, who wont tell you that partnerships with private finance means the de facto privatization of infrastructure - you have to pay for it to access it, otherwise where are those handsome cash flows gonna come from?
and a visual guide to how the Biden Infrastructure Plan according to BlackRock would look like, with a nod to @KatharinaPistor 
just to be clear - the derisking infrastructure approach is familiar to high-income countries, and has been critiqued here for a long time
https://twitter.com/mackaymiller/status/1382292476749344776?s=20
as we argued with @nssylla - #WallStreetConsensus as development paradigm for Global South has been opposed in France precisely because of the local experience with derisking PPPs
geopolitique.eu/en/2020/12/23/…
geopolitique.eu/en/2020/12/23/…
what is less known/new for the Global North Derisking State story is the institutional investor presence, and the question of @BJMbraun infrastructural power
and my favourite story of how the World Bank experimented with #WallStreetConsensus in Latin America is - drum drum - Odebrecht!
socialwatch.org/node/17710
socialwatch.org/node/17710
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