South Africa’s water, energy and food crises are interconnected. Coordinated funding across all three, including community-led and blended finance, is needed.
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Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
The actions of Ghana and Zambia set a dangerous precedent by sidelining African financial institutions.
Development finance addresses the failures or limitations of financial institutions such as commercial and investment banks.
A liaison group with large financial institutions has worked in the US and the Netherlands.
African countries can’t afford to tread water waiting for the global multilateral and private financing system to become more equitable.
Some entrepreneurship support models work better than others. Governance and structure is key to their success, or failure.
The promise of BRICS was that it would usher in a new approach to development. But after meeting annually for the last nine years there’s no sign that the old order has been challenged.
The middle class concept in Africa has remained vague and limited to number crunching. The minimum threshold for entering it in monetary terms was critically vulnerable to a setback into poverty.
Grassroots protesters are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity pushed through the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. They want policies that meet their basic needs.
The international conference for the economic recovery of Mali resulted in promises of substantial aid, but the areas targeted fail to address the country’s real needs.
As the African Development Bank Group changes leadership, Africa’s multilateral financier must chart a new course, including raising the contribution and voice of Africans in the institution.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Finance & Deputy Head of School, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Économiste, Chargé d'enseignement, Sciences Po
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Research Fellow, The University of the West Indies
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Research associate, University of Fort Hare
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln
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Associate Professor in Finance, University of Canberra
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Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Georgetown University
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Chief Research Officer: Climate and Development - Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Development Finance & Insurance, University of Cape Town
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University