On clearnights, the stars shine particularly bright over Cabo Verde. Emanating from aboundless dark canvas, the nocturnal panorama throws in sharp relief the fixed constellationsthat long served as reference points for navigators that knew and understoodtheir patterns.
Viewed froma certain vantage, the country’s development financing landscape mirrors thesestarry constellations. Here, various institutions, policies, and financial mechanismslink together to shape incentive structures and orient human action. Workingwithin this landscape, diverse actors – from government and developmentpartners to businesses, banks, lending organizations, and private citizens – interact,coordinate, and cooperate in countless ways to arrive at decisions on investmentand financing that help them achieve their objectives.
When we lookat these constellations up close, it’s hard to tell where each point sits inrelation to the larger picture. Often, these points remain disconnected ordisjointed. Even as they come into contact with others, their experience islimited to their own orbit.
