The GEMs Treasure Trove: Catalyzing Private Investment

The presentation will highlight the evolution and impact of the GEMs Consortium, a project initiated in 2009 by the EIB and IFC to pool credit risk data on private and sub-sovereign lending in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Now with 26 members, the consortium shares critical default and recovery statistics. Following the G20’s 2022 recommendation, the GEMs Consortium expanded its data dissemination efforts, and IFC commissioned a market study to assess the value of these statistics for private sector ecisionmaking.

The presentation will showcase newly published reports featuring more in-depth disaggregation of MDB/DFI lending data, debunk myths around perceived high risks in EMDE investments, and discuss how GEMs data can further mobilize private capital.