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A Big Bond for Africa

Geoff Riley

17th April 2017

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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?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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