The Global Infrastructure Facility is a/an

Answer: (b) World Bank collaboration that facilitates the preparation and structuring of complex infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to enable mobilization of private sector and institutional investor capital.

The Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) is a G20 initiative, backed by the World Bank, that helps governments prepare and structure infrastructure projects so that private and institutional money can be attracted. It is not an ASEAN, OECD or UNCTAD body.

• ✓ (b) The GIF is a collaboration platform that gives funding and advisory support to governments and multilateral development banks to structure bankable infrastructure projects, including PPPs, in emerging markets, in order to mobilise private capital.
• ✗ (a) It is a global G20 initiative, not an ASEAN scheme. Its funding comes from governments (Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the United States) and the World Bank, not from Asian Development Bank credit.
• ✗ (c) Its platform brings together governments, multilateral development banks and the private sector; it is not a group of the world's major banks working with the OECD.
• ✗ (d) UNCTAD is not among its funders, which are the governments named above and the World Bank.

Remember · GIF: a World Bank-backed G20 initiative that prepares bankable, complex infrastructure and PPP projects to mobilise private capital.

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