How Data Helps the Money Flow - Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector investment

BRIEFING How Data Helps the Money Flow Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector investment June 2023 How Data Helps the Money Flow: Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector Introduction Reliable and comprehensive data produced by the public sector can help to catalyze economic growth, with the return on investment estimated at $32 for every dollar spent. [...] To realize the benefits of data for investments and growth, countries and development partners can join the movement to commit to raising the availability of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) data, support new cutting-edge data partnerships, and work together to ensure data financing is transparent and effective. [...] This allows financial institutions, including Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data 5 Effect on Effect on Intervention Challenge economy private sector How Data Helps the Money Flow: Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector investors and banks, to reduce exposure of their investments to deforestation risks, and to assess the sustainability of their portfolios. [...] Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data 6 Effect on Effect on Intervention Challenge economy private sector How Data Helps the Money Flow: Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector The path to progress To unlock all the potential of data investment and development, there are six practical, high-impact options for public investment that will launch the path to progress, a. [...] Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data 7 Enabling factors Data collection, aggregation, and capacity How Data Helps the Money Flow: Leveraging public sector data to catalyze private sector Collectively, these investments can transform the private sector’s ability to collect, process, share, analyze, and use public data to grow their business and the wider economy (see figure below).