Maximizing Finance for Development Comes to the Middle East and North Africa analyzes the development paradigm currently being pushed in the Middle East and North Africa. In the World Bank�s terms, maximizing finance for development (MfD) constitutes a bold strategy for �systematically leverag(ing) all sources of finance, expertise, and solutions to support developing countries� sustainable growth.� In actuality, the report demonstrates that MfD threatens to increase financial volatility, compromise public finances, intensify inequality, and obstruct the infrastructure upgrades needed to power equitable development and survive ecological change.