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Innovative Finance to Address Africa’s Infrastructure Needs
As of 2015, African state governments had financed infrastructure development on their balance shee
ts alone, resulting in slower progress constrained by budgetary restrictions. In many regions across the African continent, the poor state of infrast
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Building Tomorrow's Agents of Change Across Africa
By the close of the century, sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's most populous region. Growth a
nd prosperity will depend not on natural resources, but on the talent and entrepreneurial energy of the region's young professionals.
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Africa: Understanding Its Unique Value Proposition
Moderator: Helima Croft
Speakers: Samit Gehlot, Bassim Haidar, Yvonne Ike, Jay Ireland
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Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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MENA Region: New Tactics to Transform Economies and Accelerate Growth
As economic growth and political reforms continue in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regio
n, many of those countries have been compelled to accelerate structural reforms to diversify their economies away from hydrocarbons, boost the role of the
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IFC, Milken Institute and The George Washington University Launch Capital Markets Certificate Program
Los Angeles – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the Milken Institute and The George Washington
University today launched a first-of-its-kind graduate level program for capital market practitioners in developing economies.
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