Finance and Investment

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CGD Podcast: Unlocking Private Investment in Africa with Nick O’Donohoe and Frank Aswani
March 21, 2024
CGD's Gyude Moore speaks with Nick O’Donohoe from British International Investment and Frank Aswani from the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance about balancing local and international focus, the impact of a "funding winter," and how the public and private sectors can fill the financing gap for bu...
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Lagos to Mombasa: How Do We Accelerate EU-Africa Investment?
October 07, 2021
CGD’s Mikaela Gavas joins Gyude to discuss barriers to private investment in health and infrastructure projects and how a new initiative—an Accelerator Hub—could help local businesses and institutions in Africa develop financially viable proposals and connect them with investors.
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An Accelerator Hub for EU-Africa Investment
September 09, 2021
Investment from the private sector and donor countries can boost growth in Africa, and is key to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. An Accelerator Hub would act as a one stop shop to help local businesses and institutions in Africa develop financially viable proposals, and connect them with invest...
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IFC Must Implement the Recommendations of its External Accountability Review
August 17, 2020
In late July, we had called for the immediate release of the IFC/MIGA report, and we are pleased that the report has now been disclosed. The review is comprehensive and exposes serious problems in IFC/MIGA’s accountability system that have led to its dysfunction. The process for implementing reforms...
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Too Small to Succeed: Reforming the AfDB’s Financial Governance
October 29, 2019
Why isn’t the African Development Bank Group bigger? Clemence Landers and Nancy Lee have a proposal to reform the bank and increase its size and impact.
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What’s the Latest Research in Development Economics? A Round-up from NEUDC 2019
October 07, 2019
We prepared bite-sized summaries of every available paper from this year’s North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference.
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Foreign Private Investment in Low-Income Countries: More Important Than You Think
July 24, 2019
In a world of stagnating public aid, limited fiscal space, and rising public debt in low-income countries, can they realistically expect to rely more on private finance from foreigners?