The African Development Bank (AfDB) and African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) have successfully completed a US$500mn credit insurance deal to cover a portion of the Bank’s portfolio of non-sovereign operations in Africa
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Optimism abound in Africa-Japan future investment collaboration
More opportunities for investment exist in Africa for Japan if the recently concluded African Continental Free Trade Area agreement that is geared towards future investment collaboration and industrialisation for the African market is anything to go by
AfDB publishes newly harmonised “Additionality” framework
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have published a harmonised framework for assessing additionality in their respective private sector operations
World Bank: Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa slower than expected
Sub-Saharan African economies are still recovering from the slowdown in 2015-16, but growth is slower than expected, according to the October 2018 issue of Africa’s Pulse, the bi-annual analysis of the state of African economies by the World Bank
Angolan GDP to drop to 1.5 per cent: Fitch Solutions
Angola is expected to have a 1.5 per cent GDP growth in 2018, given the growing tendency for the declining trend witnessed in oil production