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As a result, SMEs might eventually start getting more risk capital and other longer-term finance and investment.

The forum will boost investments (risk capital and loans) in SMEs that build their core business around the sustainable use of biodiversity.

Bolivia published a book on recent developments in the country's microfinance sector, which discussed financing of risk capital, innovative juridical tools and the development of microlending and microinsurance.

Here the role of risk capital comes into play, whether in the form of equity financing, venture capital, angel investment or corporate venturing.

All in all, in 2000 the EIB made available 215 million euros in risk capital to African and some other developing countries.

As a response to the crisis, some Governments tried to curb and control the inflows of such risk capital while continuing to encourage FDI.

Earlier this year, Canada launched the Canada Investment Fund for Africa, a public-private initiative designed to provide risk capital for private investments in Africa.

With regard to the private sector, he emphasized the importance of venture capital as a source of risk capital for high-technology enterprises.