An accomplished American businessman, Harvey Goldstein is the chairman of Harvest International Inc., headquartered in Indonesia. Over the course of more than 30 years, he has helped to facilitate major private foreign investments in the emerging Southeast Asian region, including the multibillion-dollar Exxon Natuna LNG project in Indonesia in the 1990s. Harvey Goldstein has also worked with global financial entities such as the World Bank, the largest development institution in the world.
Founded in 1944 to assist countries ruined by World War II, the World Bank has grown in scope and now focuses on eradicating poverty and raising the prosperity of the world’s poorest people. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, in a speech delivered in April 2017 at the London School of Economics, stated the need for a new approach to development finance.
The entire finance development system should look for innovative ways to encourage private investment in development projects which can provide commercial returns while also benefiting all stakeholders. Reforms must be introduced to not only reduce the risk of individual projects, but also to reduce the risk to entire countries while making projects commercially viable. There will still be projects, though, that cannot work under commercial terms and that will require concessional financing.
Founded in 1944 to assist countries ruined by World War II, the World Bank has grown in scope and now focuses on eradicating poverty and raising the prosperity of the world’s poorest people. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, in a speech delivered in April 2017 at the London School of Economics, stated the need for a new approach to development finance.
The entire finance development system should look for innovative ways to encourage private investment in development projects which can provide commercial returns while also benefiting all stakeholders. Reforms must be introduced to not only reduce the risk of individual projects, but also to reduce the risk to entire countries while making projects commercially viable. There will still be projects, though, that cannot work under commercial terms and that will require concessional financing.
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