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Tordo, Silvana

Energy and Extractives Global Practice
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Petroleum sector, Sovereign wealth funds, Strategic investment funds, Climate change adaptation finance
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Energy and Extractives Global Practice
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Last updated: February 13, 2024
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Silvana Tordo, lead energy economist in the World Bank’s Energy and Extractives Global Practice, specializes in the institutional, legal, contractual, and fiscal frameworks of the petroleum sector; national oil companies; and oil and gas value chains, as well as auctions, local content policies, sovereign wealth funds, strategic investment funds, and climate finance. For the World Bank she leads the Extractives-led Local Economic Development program, an industrial policy program that promotes sustainable local value creation in mining and hydrocarbons regions. Her publications cover a wide range of topics, including value creation by national oil companies, allocation of petroleum rights, oil and gas taxation, strategic investment funds, industrial policy, and climate-smart policies. Tordo has an MBA and is a doctor in business economics from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

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    Strategic Investment Funds: Opportunities and Challenges
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016-10) Noel, Michel; Halland, Havard; Kloper-Owens, Jacob J.; Tordo, Silvana; Noel, Michel
    Over the past 15 years, the number of government-sponsored strategic investment funds has grown rapidly in countries at all income levels. This paper identifies some of the challenges that these funds face in their endeavor to achieve economic policy objectives while also securing commercial financial returns—the so-called double bottom line. Through the review of the objectives, investment strategies, and operations of a sample of strategic investment funds, this paper outlines ways in which these challenges have been addressed. The paper suggests that properly structured and managed strategic investment funds can be effective vehicles for crowding in private investors to priority investments, thus magnifying the impact of public capital. However, their success rests on the funds' ability to balance policy and commercial objectives, source investment opportunities, and secure the right fund management capacity.
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    Designing Oil Revenue Management Mechanisms: An Application to Chad
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-09) Campagne, Benoit; Kitzmuller, Markus; Tordo, Silvana
    Oil resources usually play a significant role in oil-rich countries, in gross domestic product and government revenues. High dependence of government revenues on oil can contribute to severe recession following an adverse commodity price shock, such as in 2014. This paper examines the extent to which a fiscal rule or stabilization fund could translate into a less pro-cyclical fiscal policy, with the government saving part of its oil revenues during periods of high prices and drawing down on the savings during difficult periods. Using the macro-structural model MFMod, the paper presents, evaluates, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of different oil revenue management mechanisms applied to the specific case of Chad. The scenarios demonstrate that a well-designed management rule can successfully insulate the public budget from the oil price cycle, resulting in a significant reduction in the volatility of the economy.