Perfect NationsEdition of 12 November 2026
The State of Nations
Economic solutions for food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood
A Perfect Nations Solution for every nation, to end extreme poverty and secure seven basic standards of living for all.
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Perfect Nations Solutions
A Solution for every nation
Each names a nation’s challenge and what Perfect Nations advises: innovative finance first, then what super intelligence makes possible. Swipe for all 50 →
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- 01AssetsWhat the nation already owns that can carry the Solution.
- 02CapitalThe instrument that finances it, and the deal that proves it works.
- 03SolutionsWhat changes for every citizen, measured and verified.
Every figure is sourced. Each Solution is a design to co-design with the nation in the ReDesign Studio, and grows with every new blueprint.
- NigeriaSolution No. 50
The Solar Market Bond
Nigeria’s next green bond brings solar power to its markets, clinics and homes, state by state.
- The challenge
- Nigerians use about 165 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000: 83.5% of the electricity a person needs is missing.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Nigeria should dedicate its next sovereign green bond to solar mini-grids and storage for markets, clinics and homes, with private developers matching each connection and the states that open their own electricity markets served first. With super intelligence, rooftops, markets and diesel generators can be mapped from space, so every mini-grid is placed where it replaces the most diesel and serves the most traders.
- Energy
- Livelihood
- PalestineSolution No. 49
Sunlight for Gaza
Palestinians abroad and development partners finance solar power for Gaza’s hospitals, water plants, schools and homes.
- The challenge
- Of all Palestinians, 38.3% live in Gaza, where the electricity grid has been down since October 2023.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Palestine should open a light fund, published in full, through which Palestinians abroad and development partners finance solar power and storage for Gaza’s hospitals, water plants, schools and homes, beginning where the need is greatest. With super intelligence, damage and sunlight can be mapped roof by roof, so every panel is placed where it restores the most hours of power, clean water and care.
- Water
- Energy
- Health
- IraqSolution No. 48
Flares to Power
The gas Iraq burns at its oil fields is captured and turned into power for homes, repaid from the electricity sold.
- The challenge
- Iraq’s grid produced 24,600 MW in September 2026, against at least 55,000 MW needed for power around the clock: 55.3% of the electricity Iraq needs is not supplied.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Iraq should finance the capture of the gas now burned at its oil fields and turn it into power, through project finance repaid from the electricity sold, with solar plants built on the same sites. With super intelligence, every flare can be watched from space and every captured cubic metre followed to the grid, so lenders and citizens alike can see wasted gas become power.
- Energy
- CubaSolution No. 47
The Medicine Conversion
What Cuba owes its creditors becomes medicine on its pharmacy shelves.
- The challenge
- Only 30% of the basic list of medicines is available to Cubans, the President of Cuba said in August 2026: 70% is not.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Cuba should ask its official creditors to convert part of what it owes into a medicine fund, building on the counterpart fund it already runs with France, with every purchase audited and published. With super intelligence, stocks can be read pharmacy by pharmacy and shortages seen before they happen, so each order goes where patients are waiting.
- Health
- ChadSolution No. 46
Oil Behind the Sun
Oil revenue stands behind private solar plants, so they can be built for N’Djamena and every regional capital.
- The challenge
- Chadians use about 18 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000: 98.2% of the electricity a person needs is missing.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Chad should invite private producers to build solar and storage plants for N’Djamena and every regional capital, with breach-of-contract cover and a reserve, financed from oil revenue, that stands behind every bill the power company owes them. With super intelligence, sunlight, demand and every bill can be followed plant by plant, so investors can see their risk fall and every town can see its hours of power.
- Energy
- CameroonSolution No. 45
River Power for Every Home
Rivers already give Cameroon most of its power; guaranteed finance carries that clean power to every home.
- The challenge
- Cameroonians use about 251 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000: 74.9% of the electricity a person needs is missing.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Cameroon should finance the lines, substations and village connections that carry its river power to every home, backed by a development bank guarantee so that private lenders can lend for longer and at lower cost. With super intelligence, river flows, demand and losses on every line can be read as they happen, so each new connection is placed where it lights the most homes for the least money.
- Energy
- BarbadosSolution No. 44
The Blue Food Swap
The next debt conversion is bound to local farms, fisheries and sea farming.
- The challenge
- About 88,000 Barbadians, three in ten, are moderately or severely food insecure.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Barbados should make its next debt conversion a blue food swap, refinancing costly debt with guaranteed debt and binding the savings to local farms, fisheries and sea farming, so the island grows more of what it eats. With super intelligence, food prices, harvests and fish stocks can be read week by week, so support reaches the households that cannot count on enough good food before prices rise.
- Food
- Livelihood
- KenyaSolution No. 43
The Rift Reading Bond
Kenyans buy a reading bond by phone, backed by the heat of the Rift.
- The challenge
- Four in five Kenyan children reach the end of primary school unable to read a simple text.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Kenya should sell a reading bond to its own citizens by phone, as it did with M-Akiba, back it with part of the revenue from its geothermal power, and release funds to schools as children learn to read. With super intelligence, reading can be assessed in English and Kiswahili on a phone in every school, and every bondholder can see how many children their savings helped to read.
- Education
- IndiaSolution No. 42
Solar Schools, Reading Children
Solar on every government school, and the power savings finance children learning to read.
- The challenge
- 56% of Indian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2017.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- India should put solar on the roof of every government school through its sovereign green bonds, and commit the electricity savings to reading programmes rewarded on results, as the Educate Girls impact bond first did in Rajasthan. With super intelligence, every child can have a reading tutor in their own language on a shared device, and every school’s progress and power savings can be seen side by side.
- Education
- Energy
- BrazilSolution No. 41
Every Street Connected
A sanitation bond whose return rises with every home connected to a safe toilet and sewer.
- The challenge
- About 109 million Brazilians, about one in two, have no safely managed toilet at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Brazil should issue a sanitation outcome bond under its sustainable bond framework, with the return rising as each verified household is connected to a safe toilet and sewer, and pair it with the currency hedging that Eco Invest Brasil already offers foreign investors. With super intelligence, every street without sewerage can be mapped from satellite and census data, so concessions are priced street by street and no community is left until last.
- Shelter
- Water
- Health
- RwandaSolution No. 40
Standard Tokens for Clean Kitchens
The first pilot of Standard Tokens, designed by Perfect Nations: one token, one clean kitchen.
- The challenge
- About 13 million Rwandans, nine in ten, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Rwanda should be the first nation to pilot Standard Tokens, designed by Perfect Nations: small units of finance that citizens, investors and visitors can buy, each tied to one household’s switch to clean cooking, subject to compliance review. With super intelligence, each token can be linked to a verified kitchen, so every buyer sees the family it reached and Rwanda sees its progress home by home.
- Energy
- Health
- AfghanistanSolution No. 39
Every Child Learns
Partners finance learning through community schools, released only when children can read.
- The challenge
- Nine in ten ten-year-olds in Afghanistan cannot read a simple text.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Afghanistan’s partners should finance a learning outcomes fund, delivered through UN agencies and community schools, that releases money only when independent tests show children reading, and that reaches every child it can, girls included. With super intelligence, lessons in Dari and Pashto can reach any child with a phone or a radio, and learning can be verified without a classroom.
- Education
- ZimbabweSolution No. 38
Lithium for Living
A share of rising lithium revenue backs a social bond for toilets, sewers and safe homes.
- The challenge
- About 13 million Zimbabweans, three in four, have no safely managed sanitation at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Zimbabwe should commit a share of its rising lithium revenue to a sanitation fund that backs a social bond for toilets, sewers and safe homes, in the towns first and then the rural districts. With super intelligence, every household without safe sanitation can be mapped and each upgrade verified, so lithium buyers and citizens alike can see the revenue at work.
- Shelter
- Health
- ZambiaSolution No. 37
The Copper Windfall for Learning
Every kwacha earned above the budgeted copper price goes to children learning to read.
- The challenge
- 98% of Zambian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Zambia should write a copper windfall clause into its budget, sending every kwacha earned above the budgeted copper price to a learning fund that rewards schools as children read. With super intelligence, copper revenue and reading can be tracked side by side and published monthly, so every windfall is seen to reach a classroom.
- Education
- VietnamSolution No. 36
The Sanitation Exchange
Citizens and investors own the sewers and treatment plants its cities need, on its own stock market.
- The challenge
- About 55 million Vietnamese, 55 in every hundred, have no safely managed toilet at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Vietnam should list a sanitation infrastructure fund on its newly upgraded stock market, so domestic and foreign investors can own the sewers and treatment plants its cities need, with returns tied to homes connected. With super intelligence, every city’s network can be planned and its performance reported to shareholders in real time.
- Shelter
- Water
- UkraineSolution No. 35
The Breadbasket Guarantee
War-risk cover and credit guarantees let farmers plant, so families can count on food at home.
- The challenge
- About 12 million Ukrainians, 32 in every hundred, cannot always count on enough good food.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Ukraine should combine war-risk insurance for its farms with credit guarantees, so farmers can borrow to plant and families can count on affordable food at home while the nation rebuilds. With super intelligence, fields, stores and damage can be assessed from satellite, so cover is priced and claims settled within days rather than seasons.
- Food
- Livelihood
- UgandaSolution No. 34
Cook-as-You-Go
Clean power from the Nile comes with a clean kitchen, financed by carbon credits.
- The challenge
- About 50 million Ugandans, almost everyone, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Uganda should let households cook with its clean hydropower on cook-as-you-go plans, financed by carbon credits and the Electricity Access Scale-up Project, so every new connection comes with a clean kitchen. With super intelligence, smart meters can verify each meal cooked with electricity, turning every verified switch into a carbon credit that finances the next home.
- Energy
- Health
- TanzaniaSolution No. 33
Nyerere Power, Every Kitchen
The guarantee that brought nine banks to the railway now brings power and clean cooking home.
- The challenge
- About 63 million Tanzanians, almost nine in ten, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Tanzania should turn the power of the Julius Nyerere station into clean kitchens, with a guaranteed facility like the one that brought nine banks to its railway, financing last-mile connections and electric cookers recovered through electricity bills. With super intelligence, every connection can be planned from satellite maps of homes and lines, so the new power reaches the families still waiting.
- Energy
- Health
- Sri LankaSolution No. 32
Rooftop Kitchens
Rooftop solar and electric cooking are financed together, by Sri Lankans at home and abroad.
- The challenge
- About 15 million Sri Lankans, 69 in every hundred, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Sri Lanka should finance rooftop solar and electric cooking together, through green bonds sold to Sri Lankans at home and abroad and serviced from the power each roof saves. With super intelligence, every roof can be assessed for sunlight and every kitchen’s switch verified, so families spend less on energy and the island imports less fuel.
- Energy
- South SudanSolution No. 31
Oil to Sunlight
A published share of oil revenue becomes solar power and clean kitchens, state by state.
- The challenge
- Almost every South Sudanese, 12.2 million people, cooks without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- South Sudan should place a fixed share of oil revenue in an account published in full, financing solar power and clean cooking in every state capital first, with development partners matching each verified connection. With super intelligence, every oil receipt and every connection can be published and checked by any citizen, so revenue turns into light and trust together.
- Energy
- South AfricaSolution No. 30
A Wildlife Bond for Reading
The design of the world’s first wildlife conservation bond, applied to children reading.
- The challenge
- 82% of South African children could not read for meaning by the end of primary school in 2021.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- South Africa should apply the design of its Wildlife Conservation Bond to reading: a bond with its principal protected and a return that rises as children learn to read for meaning, with an outcome funder behind it. With super intelligence, reading for meaning can be assessed in every home language, so the result behind the bond is measured fairly in every school.
- Education
- SomaliaSolution No. 29
The Clean Ledger Kitchen
Debt relief opens room to finance solar and clean cooking, delivered through the phone.
- The challenge
- Almost every Somali, about 19 million people, cooks without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Somalia should use the borrowing room its debt relief has created for a solar power and clean cooking programme, financed by concessional loans and results-based grants for each verified household and delivered through mobile money. With super intelligence, every settlement can be mapped and every household reached through its phone, so support flows even where roads and offices do not.
- Energy
- Livelihood
- SenegalSolution No. 28
Water by Results
Operators are rewarded for safe water delivered to homes, not for pipes laid.
- The challenge
- About 14 million Senegalese, 73 in every hundred, have no safely managed drinking water at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Senegal should finance safe water at home with an outcome bond whose return rises with households connected and water tested safe, so the money follows safe water delivered rather than pipes laid. With super intelligence, every network can be monitored for leaks and quality, so operators are rewarded for each safe tap and each litre saved.
- Water
- Health
- Republic of the CongoSolution No. 27
Carbon for Classrooms
The forest that earns carbon revenue also educates the children who live beside it.
- The challenge
- 70% of Congolese children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- The Republic of the Congo should direct a share of its forest carbon revenue to the schools of the communities that keep the forest standing, rewarding each school as its children learn to read. With super intelligence, forest cover and reading levels can both be verified from afar, so carbon buyers see standing trees and children learning in the same report.
- Education
- Livelihood
- PhilippinesSolution No. 26
The Archipelago Reading Bond
Filipinos at home and abroad buy a reading bond by phone, in small amounts.
- The challenge
- 91% of Filipino children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- The Philippines should sell a reading bond to Filipinos at home and abroad through mobile wallets, in small amounts, to finance tutors and books for the children furthest behind. With super intelligence, every pupil can have a reading tutor on a phone in Filipino, English or the language spoken at home, and every school’s progress can be seen in real time.
- Education
- PakistanSolution No. 25
The Education Sukuk
A sukuk opens schools where most children are out of school, released as children read.
- The challenge
- 80% of Pakistani children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Pakistan should issue an education sukuk whose proceeds open schools and train teachers where most children are out of school, with each tranche released as independent tests show children reading. With super intelligence, out-of-school children can be found village by village and taught to read in their own language on a phone, so no girl or boy is missed.
- Education
- NigeriaSolution No. 24
The Diaspora Harvest Bond
Nigerians abroad finance storage and warehouse receipts, so farmers sell when prices are fair.
- The challenge
- About 182 million Nigerians, 76 in every hundred, cannot always count on enough good food.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Nigeria should issue a second diaspora bond to finance storage, irrigation and warehouse receipts, so farmers can borrow against their stored grain instead of selling at harvest-time prices. With super intelligence, crops and stores can be watched by satellite and sensor, so every receipt is backed by real grain and lenders can reach farmers they never saw before.
- Food
- Livelihood
- NamibiaSolution No. 23
The Hydrogen Skills Bond
Investors finance training for the hydrogen, solar and wind economy, and are rewarded for every Namibian hired.
- The challenge
- About 1.9 million Namibians live below US$8.30 a day, on the 2015 survey.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Namibia should finance a skills impact bond in which investors fund training for hydrogen, solar and wind work, and the projects and the state reward them for every Namibian placed in a lasting job. With super intelligence, every course can be matched to the jobs the projects will create, so training follows demand and each placement is verified.
- Livelihood
- Energy
- MozambiqueSolution No. 22
Gas to Kitchens
Future gas revenue finances clean cooking now, rather than after first gas.
- The challenge
- About 33 million Mozambicans, more than nine in ten, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Mozambique should commit a share of future gas revenue to clean cooking at home, and finance the switch now against that revenue with development bank backing, rather than wait for first gas. With super intelligence, every household’s fuel use can be followed through mobile purchases, so support reaches the families still cooking with charcoal and the forests are spared.
- Energy
- Health
- MoroccoSolution No. 21
Sun to Sanitation
Clean energy powers the treatment of every town’s wastewater, and the treated water is sold to farms.
- The challenge
- About 35 million Moroccans, 92 in every hundred, have no safely managed toilet at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Morocco should issue a social bond for safe toilets and wastewater treatment powered by its own clean energy, with the treated water sold to farms to help service the debt. With super intelligence, every town’s sewers and treatment plants can be planned together and watched in real time, so investors see each home connected and each cubic metre reused.
- Shelter
- Water
- MexicoSolution No. 20
The Water Guarantee
A guarantee that draws private capital into infrastructure is turned toward safe water at home.
- The challenge
- About 75 million Mexicans, 57 in every hundred, have no safely managed drinking water at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Mexico should direct the World Bank credit enhancement already drawing private capital into its infrastructure toward municipal water utilities, so domestic pension savings finance safe drinking water in every state. With super intelligence, leaks and water quality can be watched across each network, so utilities show investors the water saved and the homes served.
- Water
- Health
- MalawiSolution No. 19
Kwacha Solar
Solar and clean cooking firms borrow in kwacha, so families can light and cook on instalments.
- The challenge
- Almost every Malawian, about 22 million people, cooks without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Malawi should back the companies that sell solar power and clean cooking on instalments with a local-currency guarantee, so they borrow in kwacha, and connect the homes along the lines the Mpatamanga hydropower project will feed. With super intelligence, instalment and meter data can show which homes are ready for credit, so families build a credit history as they light and cook cleanly.
- Energy
- Livelihood
- MadagascarSolution No. 18
The Vanilla Energy Fund
Vanilla buyers and forest carbon finance clean cooking in the regions that grow the world’s vanilla.
- The challenge
- Almost every Malagasy, about 32 million people, cooks without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Madagascar should create a clean energy fund for its vanilla regions, co-financed by the buyers of its vanilla and by carbon credits from the forests that solar power and clean stoves spare from charcoal. With super intelligence, charcoal use and forest loss can be tracked from satellite, so every credit is verified and every village is reached in turn.
- Energy
- Livelihood
- LesothoSolution No. 17
Water for Learning
The water Lesotho sells to its neighbour returns as literacy in its mountain schools.
- The challenge
- 97% of Basotho children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school, on 2016 data.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Lesotho should pledge a fixed share of its Highlands Water royalties to a learning trust that rewards schools as children learn to read, and let Basotho abroad add their savings through a diaspora bond. With super intelligence, reading can be measured in Sesotho and English in every mountain school, so the water that flows to its neighbour returns as literacy at home.
- Education
- JordanSolution No. 16
The Reading Compact
Partners and Jordanians abroad invest together in one fund that rewards schools as children read.
- The challenge
- 62% of Jordanian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2021.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Jordan should launch a learning outcomes fund in which its development partners and Jordanians abroad invest together, releasing money to schools only as children reach agreed reading levels, so every partner finances results rather than inputs. With super intelligence, Arabic reading can be assessed and tutored on a phone, child by child, so every school sees which pupils need help this term.
- Education
- JamaicaSolution No. 15
Hurricane-Proof Harvests
The protection of the catastrophe bond reaches every farmer and fisher, within days of a storm.
- The challenge
- About 1.6 million Jamaicans, 56 in every hundred, cannot always count on enough good food.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Jamaica should extend the protection of its catastrophe bond to the farm, with parametric cover for every registered farmer and fisher delivered to mobile wallets within days of a hurricane, and credit ready to replant. With super intelligence, wind, rain and crop damage can be read from satellite parcel by parcel, so cover is priced fairly and reaches each farmer before the next planting.
- Food
- Livelihood
- IndonesiaSolution No. 14
The Water Sukuk
The nation that issued the world’s first green sukuk issues one for safe water on every island.
- The challenge
- About 199 million Indonesians, 70 in every hundred, have no safely managed drinking water at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Indonesia should issue a water sukuk, ring-fenced for safe drinking water at home on every island, from piped networks to small desalination plants, building on the investor base of its green sukuk. With super intelligence, water quality can be monitored at every tap and the island networks planned together, so sukuk holders see each connection their finance delivers.
- Water
- Health
- GhanaSolution No. 13
Pensions for Sanitation
Ghana’s own pension savings finance a cedi bond for safe toilets in every home.
- The challenge
- About 28 million Ghanaians, 81 in every hundred, have no safely managed toilet at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Ghana should invite its pension funds, which already anchor the Ci Gaba Fund of Funds, into a cedi sanitation bond that finances household toilets and safe waste services, with mobile-money instalments for families and results-based support for the poorest homes. With super intelligence, every home without a safe toilet can be found and every connection verified, so pensioners earn their return from a cleaner, healthier Ghana.
- Shelter
- Health
- FijiSolution No. 12
The Blue Livelihood Bond
A second blue bond finances fishing, seaweed and coastal enterprise, with cyclone cover built in.
- The challenge
- About 572,000 Fijians, 61 in every hundred, lived below US$8.30 a day on the 2019 survey.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Fiji should follow its first sovereign blue bond with one that finances the livelihoods of the sea, from fisheries and seaweed farming to coastal tourism enterprises, with cyclone cover built in so one storm cannot erase a season’s income. With super intelligence, fish stocks, reefs and weather can be watched in real time, so loans are timed to the seasons and cover is triggered the day a cyclone strikes.
- Livelihood
- Food
- EthiopiaSolution No. 11
The Highland Electric Kitchen
Almost wholly renewable power becomes clean cooking, financed through the electricity bill.
- The challenge
- About 126 million Ethiopians, 93 in every hundred, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Ethiopia should turn its almost wholly renewable power into clean kitchens, financing electric cookers through monthly electricity bills and carbon credits, delivered first to households in the Productive Safety Net. With super intelligence, every meter can show when a family cooks with electricity, so each verified switch earns its carbon credit and the grid is planned around the kitchens it serves.
- Energy
- Health
- EswatiniSolution No. 10
Safe Water, Proven Home by Home
The nation that met its HIV targets early brings the same discipline to safe water at home.
- The challenge
- About 776,000 Emaswati have no safely managed drinking water at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Eswatini should finance safe water at home the way it reached its HIV targets early: a results-based programme that releases funds for each verified household connection, built on the Mkhondvo-Ngwavuma water augmentation now under way. With super intelligence, every homestead can be mapped and its water tested by phone, so connections follow need and every tap is proven safe.
- Water
- Health
- EgyptSolution No. 09
The Nile Reading Bond
A bond whose cost falls when Egypt’s children read, so investors share the gain.
- The challenge
- 56% of Egyptian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2021.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Egypt should follow its social Eurobond with a learning-linked bond whose coupon falls if national reading scores reach an agreed target, so investors share the gain when every child reads. With super intelligence, reading can be tested on a tablet in every classroom and the target verified independently, so the measure behind the bond is beyond dispute.
- Education
- EcuadorSolution No. 08
The Learning Conversion
The debt conversions that protect the Galapagos and the Amazon now finance reading.
- The challenge
- 66% of Ecuadorian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Ecuador should apply the design of its Galapagos and Amazon debt conversions to learning: buy back costly bonds with cheaper, guaranteed debt and bind the savings, over many years, to teachers and reading programmes in every province. With super intelligence, reading can be measured in every school, in Spanish and Kichwa, so each year’s savings reach the children furthest behind first.
- Education
- DR CongoSolution No. 07
Cobalt for Classrooms
A share of cobalt royalties is pledged to a learning trust, released as children read.
- The challenge
- 97% of Congolese children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- DR Congo should pledge a share of future cobalt royalties to a learning trust that finances teachers, books and school meals, releasing each tranche as independent tests show children reading, and invite the battery makers who buy its cobalt to join as outcome funders. With super intelligence, cobalt can be traced from mine to battery and learning measured school by school, so every royalty dollar can be followed into a classroom.
- Education
- Livelihood
- Côte d’IvoireSolution No. 06
The Cocoa Classroom Fund
The buyers of Ivorian cocoa help finance schools that are rewarded as children learn to read.
- The challenge
- 80% of Ivorian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Côte d’Ivoire should build on its debt-for-development swap with a learning fund co-financed by the companies that buy its cocoa, releasing money to schools in the cocoa regions only as children learn to read. With super intelligence, reading can be assessed child by child on a phone, in French and in local languages, so every cocoa village knows which children need help this term.
- Education
- Livelihood
- ColombiaSolution No. 05
The Barrio Bonds
Cities issue bonds for toilets, sewers and safer homes, and new transit lines help finance them.
- The challenge
- About 43 million Colombians, 81 in every hundred, have no safely managed toilet at home.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Colombia should let its cities issue social bonds for toilets, sewers and home upgrades in informal neighbourhoods, as Bogota did with its international green bond, and finance part of each with the land value that new transit lines create, starting with Bogota’s first metro line. With super intelligence, every informal home can be mapped and its upgrade priced, so each bond is sized to real streets and its results reported to investors house by house.
- Shelter
- Water
- BurundiSolution No. 04
Light for Every Hill
Solar mini-grids and electric cooking reach the hill villages, financed connection by connection.
- The challenge
- Almost every Burundian, 14.4 million people, cooks without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Burundi should finance solar mini-grids and electric cooking in its hill villages with results-based grants for each verified connection, behind the kind of political-risk cover MIGA already gives Weza Power, so private developers can build at scale. With super intelligence, every village can be sited and sized from satellite maps of homes and sunlight, so investors see a pipeline of bankable mini-grids rather than a single plant.
- Energy
- Livelihood
- BotswanaSolution No. 03
The Diamond Enterprise Dividend
A larger share of every diamond becomes equity and credit for Batswana firms that will outlast the mines.
- The challenge
- About 1.6 million Batswana live below US$8.30 a day, on the 2015 survey.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Botswana should commit part of its larger share of diamond sales to a sovereign fund of funds that guarantees loans to, and invests in, Batswana firms in solar power, tourism and food, so diamonds build the jobs that will outlast the mines. With super intelligence, every enterprise can be matched to the lender and the market it needs, and every job it creates counted, so the dividend reaches the citizens furthest from a decent income first.
- Livelihood
- BangladeshSolution No. 02
The Clean Kitchen Fund
Every family that leaves wood and dung behind earns a carbon credit that finances the next kitchen.
- The challenge
- About 125 million Bangladeshis, 71 in every hundred, cook without clean fuel or technology.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Bangladesh should create a clean kitchen fund that lends stoves and cylinders through mobile money and sells a verified carbon credit for every household that stops cooking with wood and dung, so each switch finances the next. With super intelligence, every switch can be verified from the kitchen to the carbon registry, so credits sell at full value and the fund grows with every family it reaches.
- Energy
- Health
- AngolaSolution No. 01
The Lobito Food Corridor
Oil revenue stands behind the loans that turn the Lobito railway into a corridor of farms, mills and markets.
- The challenge
- About 29 million Angolans, three in four, are moderately or severely food insecure.
- What Perfect Nations advises
- Angola should set aside a share of oil revenue as first-loss capital in a corridor fund that guarantees loans to farms, mills and food traders along the Lobito railway, so local banks lend to the growers the line now reaches. With super intelligence, every farm along the corridor can be mapped, its harvest forecast and its loan priced, so finance reaches the families who grow food and not only the largest estates.
- Food
- Livelihood
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Deal Note No. 01Developing nations
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