Capital Architecture
How a nation pays for what its people are owed
Which instrument, from whom, on what terms, in what order.
- 5Signature instruments
- 33In the toolkit
- 225On record
- 17Nations
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Results-based finance
Outcome Bonds
Paid on verified results↓ -
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Development finance
Development Impact Bonds
Investors repaid by outcomes↓ -
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Inclusive capital markets
Social Bonds
Capital for essential services↓ -
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Performance-linked
Sustainability-Linked Bonds
The coupon answers to targets↓ -
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Designed by Perfect Nations
Standard Tokens
Priced by region · pending compliance↓
Already working
Five nations, five instruments, real results
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Outcome Bond$225M Amazon reforestation, paid in carbon removed
Brazil
A nine-year World Bank bond. Principal protected; the return rises with the carbon the replanted forest removes.
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Development Impact Bond160% of the learning target, met in Rajasthan
India
The first education impact bond. 768 out-of-school girls enrolled; investors were repaid because the results were.
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Social Bond$400M for affordable homes for 24,000+ families
Ecuador
The first sovereign social bond, with a $300M guarantee from the Inter-American Development Bank. Mortgages at 4.99 per cent.
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Sustainability-Linked Bond$2B with a coupon tied to the climate
Chile
The first sovereign sustainability-linked bond. Miss 95 MtCO2e by 2030 or 60 per cent clean power by 2032, and Chile pays more.
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The precedent for Standard TokensKES 3,000 to own a Kenyan government bond, by phone
Kenya
M-Akiba, 2017: sovereign finance any citizen can hold. Standard Tokens take the idea further.
AI-generated illustrations; not photographs of the financed projects.
The toolkit
The periodic table of development finance
33 instruments in six families. Select one.
Results & outcomes
Sovereign & resilience bonds
Guarantees & risk-sharing
Blended & concessional
Diaspora & trade
Equity, insurance & platforms
On record
225 instruments, 17 nations, each on its blueprint
Every dot is a real, dated, sourced transaction. Select a nation.
Counts, never sums. Amounts and sources are on each blueprint.
Nation by nation
Which of these could your nation use?
Each blueprint answers instrument by instrument, in sequence, with the terms attached.