Financing a self-determined future — on the terms of the economies building it.

Emerging economies hold the world’s youngest workforces and fastest-growing markets, yet receive a fraction of global development capital — and much of what they do receive arrives short-dated and pro-cyclical, the first to leave when it is needed most.

The United Economic Development Fund was formed to close that gap. Owned and directed by its members, the coalition moves patient, de-risked capital that economies direct toward their own priorities. Concessional capital, guarantees, and first-loss layers are structured to mobilise private and institutional money at a multiple of the coalition’s own outlay — turning otherwise-unbankable opportunities into investable ones.

But capital alone rarely sticks. Every commitment carries a capacity component — the institutions, skills, and data that let results outlast the financing and compound across the wider economy. The goal is not a single project but the rails that keep working long after any one commitment is repaid.

The coalition’s legitimacy rests on one principle: those who bear the outcomes hold the mandate.