The wider consequences of this disjuncture for urban development, financing and governance in Cape Coast, Ghana, and Africa are discussed.doi:10.1080/07352166.2019.1629819Lewis Abedi AsanteIlse HelbrechtJournal of Urban Affairs
LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa:Welcome to the August edition ofINTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets.The edition focuses on Infrastructure Financing in Africa.Please download by clickingINTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: AUGUST EDITION. Africa has experie...
Africa50 is an infrastructure investment platform that contributes to Africa's growth by developing and investing in bankable projects, catalyzing public sector capital, and mobilizing private sector funding, with differentiated financial returns and imp
African infrastructure financingtraditionally has been limited to development finance institutions (DFIs), commercial banks and export credit agencies (ECAs) with a financing structure, which in comparison to financing structures in other regions with mature finance markets is not optimised to reduc...
Infrastructure and Africa's Development: The Imperative of Alternative Funding Options From an estimated funding gap of $93 billion a year up to 2020, Africa's infrastructure financing needs were further revised to $130鈥 $170 billion annually. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa Pr...
The PIDA Week will consider thematic issues including post-COVID 19 infrastructure financing, delivery, and resilience; the critical role of infrastructure in the implementation of the agreement for establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and in the post-COVID-19 recovery; and...
This is the outcome of sustained pressure emanating from initiatives to curb money laundering and the financing of terrorism. In the last few years, various international bodies, such as the African Union (AU), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations...
South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana have received more than 70 per cent of development finance institution funding since 2009. Marc Fèvre, a Baker & McKenzie partner focused on project development and financing, argued there was a “huge amount” of commercial, pri...
Raila Odinga, AU high representative for infrastructure development in Africa, told a forum in Nairobi that bridging infrastructure financing should be a priority in stimulating growth on the continent. "Africa continues to be characterized by an infrastructural deficit, a situation that remains critical...
Yet current investment still falls far short of demand. According to the African Development Bank, the continent has a $100 billion annual shortfall in infrastructure financing. This infrastructure gap is not only impacting lives today, but also significantly curtailing the c...