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Bahamas

An island nation of 403,000 people, where visitors earned six tenths of export income in 2020 and a 2024 debt conversion refinanced $300 million to fund the protection of the sea.

Perfect Nations values what Bahamas owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Bahamas at a glance

  • 403,033PeopleWorld Bank
  • Furthest from reach · Food17.2%of Bahamians are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2022
  • 1Instrument or investment on recordCapital already committed
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What we do for Bahamas

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Visitors to The Land.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurelsOne instrument on record, sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Food is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Bahamas toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 59.6%Of export earnings from visitors, 2020

    The Visitors

    Visitors already pay for the coast and the culture; their spending can finance what lasts.

  • 50.9%Of the land under forest, 2024

    The Forest

    Standing forest that stores carbon and water, and can earn as it stands.

  • 403,033Citizens, 2025

    The People

    17.5% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation.

  • 1,761 m³Renewable fresh water a person, 2022

    The Fresh Water

    Rain and rivers renewed every year: power, irrigation and drinking water.

  • 10,010 km²Land area, 2023

    The Land

    Territory to farm, power and protect.

Every figure, with its sourceThe Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Debt turned into an ocean fund.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Bahamas owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

  • $300MExternal commercial debt bought back with a 15-year Standard Chartered loan backed by a $200 million IDB guarantee, 22 November 2024IDB, 2024
  • $124MEstimated savings for marine conservation over the next 15 yearsIDB, 2024
  • 71.7%General government gross debt, share of GDP, 2025IMF, WEO Oct 2026
  • 2.5%Real GDP growth projected for 2026IMF, WEO Oct 2026

Capital already committed

  • ImpactClosedDebt Conversion for Marine Conservation$300M

    IDB guarantee · Standard Chartered loan · The Nature Conservancy · 22 November 2024

    IDB guarantee: $200 million

    Refinanced external commercial debt; the savings fund marine conservation for 15 years, with an endowment expected to reach $20 million by 2039.

    IDBThe Nature ConservancyStandard CharteredBuilders VisionAXA XL

    Source

The Bahamas Newswire

The Solutions Wire
Danielle Rolle, Nation Steward of Bahamas

Danielle RolleNation Steward of Bahamas · SI Researcher

Already working in the Bahamas.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Bahamas, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

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  • The first firms and social enterprises at work in Bahamas are being gathered.

    Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Bahamas, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with the Bahamas in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works
Bahamas: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for Bahamas.WATER99%SHELTER–ENERGY100%FOOD82.8%EDUCATION95.3HEALTH80LIVELIHOOD–
82.8%
Food · furthest from reachNot food insecure; 17.2% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2022

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The price of Perfect Bahamas

To be set with Bahamas, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Bahamas, each year.

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  • Food82.8%Not food insecure; 17.2% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2022
  • Water99%Basic drinking water; safely managed water is not measured (lenient), datedWHO/UNICEF, 2019
  • ShelterNot measuredNeither safely managed sanitation nor urban slums is measured for the BahamasWHO/UNICEF
  • Energy100%100% cook with clean fuels and technology; 100% have electricityWorld Bank, 2024
  • Education95.395.3% of young people complete lower secondary school; 2010, datedWorld Bank, 2010
  • Health80WHO service coverage indexWHO, 2023
  • LivelihoodNot measuredNo poverty survey for the Bahamas is published by the World BankWorld Bank

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with the Bahamas. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Bahamas

All Solutions

  • The Solution for BahamasFood

    Protect the harvest before it fails.

    • 01The challenge17.2% Of Bahamians are moderately or severely food insecure. FAO, 2022
    • 02The dealSovereign drought insurance, proved in Malawi, 2024: $11.2M released after the El Niño drought, for food aid to about 235,000 households. African Development Bank, August 2024
    • 03What Perfect Nations advisesNations where food is furthest from reach should buy drought insurance that releases funds on measured rainfall, with the trigger and the price of the cover set district by district before the season begins. With super intelligence, rainfall and harvests can be read field by field, so that funds reach families within weeks of a failed season, before hunger does.
    Co-design it inThe ReDesign StudioThe three mandates
Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsBahamas

Dear Bahamas,

Your islands and your sea earn six tenths of your export income, and in 2024 you turned $300 million of debt into funding for the ocean.

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Every home has power and almost every home has drinking water. Yet 17.2% of you are moderately or severely food insecure. Let the savings of the sea help put fresh food within reach of every Bahamian table.

“Debt turned into an ocean fund can also keep every table full.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Bahamas ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Bahamas, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments

  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Food, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing

  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab

  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Bahamians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect Bahamas into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Bahamas, published with your name.

    Submit your writing

  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect Bahamas.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Bahamas already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

    Nominate yourselfSuggest a guest

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Bahamas.

    Become a Co-designer

The Bahamas ReDesign Studio is open

Design Perfect Bahamas with us.

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access and clean cooking.
  2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023.
  3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026): general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
  4. Inter-American Development Bank press release, 22 November 2024; The Nature Conservancy press release on the Bahamas Nature Bonds project.
  5. IMF: The Bahamas, 2025 Article IV consultation (country report of 6 February 2026).
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