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A Big Bond for Africa
17th April 2017
Infrastructure needs are growing across the world and nowhere more than in many countries in sub Saharan Africa. Significant investment in rail, roads, renewable energy and telecoms could help to knit countries together and lift the low level of intra-regional trade. One idea to raise outside finance is for aid donors to borrow against future aid commitments. Can Africa's Big Bond idea take hold?
Is the @_AfricanUnion’s financial independence a possibility? Read https://t.co/Mpmi5MU4iK pic.twitter.com/PjfjM0FBgm
— ECDPM 🔎 🌍 (@ECDPM) April 18, 2017
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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